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	Ohio Light Opera Victor Herbert: Mlle. Modiste Genre: Classical Track Listings (1) - Disc #1 Mlle. Modiste By the time composer Victor Herbert began work in 1905 on his comic opera Mlle. Modiste, he already had 14 Broadway shows to his credit and a reputation as America s most prominent composer of stage music. With Metropolita... more » « less
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All Artists: Ohio Light Opera
Title: Victor Herbert: Mlle. Modiste
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Albany Records
Release Date: 10/1/2009
Genre: Classical
Style: Opera & Classical Vocal
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 034061114727

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By the time composer Victor Herbert began work in 1905 on his comic opera Mlle. Modiste, he already had 14 Broadway shows to his credit and a reputation as America s most prominent composer of stage music. With Metropolitan Opera star Fritzi Scheff in the title role of Fifi, the hatgirl with dreams of a stage career, Mlle. Modiste opened on Christmas Day of 1905 and ran for 202 performances. Herbert s musical score remains one of the supreme gems in the American operetta canon and it is fitting that the Ohio Light Opera celebrate the 150th anniversary of his birth with this delightful operetta.

CD Reviews

Wonderful Herbert operetta in fine performance

Stephen Peithman | Davis, CA USA | 03/29/2010

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is one of the best Ohio Light Opera Company recordings, with fine singing and orchestral playing--just as important to me, the singers don't sound amateurish when they deliver their spoken lines--something I have found to be the case with some other Ohio recordings. Highly recommended for anyone who loves Victor Herbert, but who knows only "The Red Mill" or "Naughty Marietta.""