Doctor of Alcantara, The

The Oxford Companion to American Theatre | 2004 | 700+ words | Copyright

Doctor of Alcantara, The (1866), an opéra bouffe by Benjamin Edward Woolf (book), Julius Eichberg (music). [French Theatre, 12 perf.] Two young lovers, Carlos and Isabella, are ordered by their fathers, Doctor Paracelsus and Señor Balthazar, to marry mates they have never seen. No one realizes that the mates selected are none other than the lovers themselves. Carlos's adventures in the difficult courtship include hiding in a basket, which is thrown in the river with Carlos inside, and being mistaken for dead after drinking a sleeping potion. The comic opera had its first performances in Boston, where its authors were based, in 1862. For several years it was regularly included in the repertory of numerous traveling opera companies and was presented in most major cities. Of negligible value, it represents the style and drift of operetta in America before the coming of Offenbach and Gilbert and Sullivan.

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