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''Doris'' is a "comedy opera" in three acts by Alfred Cellier, with a libretto by B. C. Stephenson. After the phenomenal success of Cellier and Stephenson's ''Dorothy'' (1886), the pair were hoping for another big hit. ''Doris'' turned out to be only modestly successful. It opened at the Lyric Theatre in London on 20 April 1889 and ran for 202 performances. It starred Arthur Williams, Ben Davies, Alice Barnett, Hayden Coffin, Furneaux Cook and John Le Hay. ''The New York Times'' review stated: :"Musically considered, the new comic opera is an English classic.... The composer does not descend at any time from his ideal plane. There is () sacrifice of artistic form at any point to please the popular ear. All the numbers are charming, and several of them... are simply gems.... The libretto... is about as ingeniously bad a bit of construction as could be conceived.... The comic opportunities are few and very conventional; consequently... the opera is neither funny nor interesting...."〔(A New Comic Opera", ) ''The New-York Times'', 21 April 1889, accessed 2008-07-07〕 Another critic concluded, "The libretto of ''Doris'' is so feeble that I misdoubt even Cellier's music, the splendid mounting of the piece, and the interesting Elizabethan processions pulling it through. What judicious compression and unscrupulous 'gagging' may accomplish one cannot, of course, venture to prophesy. I understood that at the end of ''Dorothy's'' run very little if any of the original dialogue remained. It had been improved out of recognition. Still, both ''Dorothy'' and ''Falka'' rejoiced in plain straightforward stories everyone could understand. The difficulty is to make head or tail of ''Doris''."〔(Review of ''Doris'' ), PapersPast, accessed 2008-07-07〕 ==Roles and original cast== *Doris Shelton - Annette Albu *Lady Anne Jerningham - Amy Augarde *Mistress Shelton - Alice Barnett *Dolly Spigott - Effie Chapuy *Martin Bolder - Ben Davies *Sir Philip Carey - C. Hayden Coffin *Alderman Shelton - J. Furneaux Cook *Crook (Apprentice) - John Le Hay *Dormer (Apprentice) - W. T. Hemsley *Barnaby Spigott - Percy Compton *Dinniver - Arthur Williams 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Doris (opera)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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