The Doctor of Alcantara.; Opera Bouffe, in two acts. Libretto

by Benjamin Edward Woolf. Music by Julius Eichberg

$125 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

Boston: Oliver Ditson, c1862 . First ed. 12mo. 27 pp. Cast printed on title page verso; publisher's ads. Printed invitation to an 1873 performance of the opera tipped in. A native German, Eichberg directed the Boston Museum orchestra in the 1850s, later founded the Boston Conservatory of Music, and wrote three operettas and this opera, one of the earliest full-fledged American comic operas. Between 1860 and the mid-1890s Woolf wrote more than 30 plays and

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