An Alfred Cellier Revival

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Also on Dutton's list is Gilbert and Cellier's 'The Mountebanks', first produced in 1892, the year after Cellier's death from tb.  The disc also includes Cellier's earlier Suite Symphonique.  Add to this next year's release of Cellier's smash hit comic opera 'Dorothy' on Naxos (Bonynge conducting Majella Cullagh and others assembled by Victorian Opera Northwest) and we'll have a nice sample of a composer once famous but now little more than a name.  Btw, Alfred Cellier was succeeded as conductor at D'Oyly Carte by his brother Francois, grandfather of actor Peter Cellier (still going at age 89) of Yes Minister, etc, fame...