A guest post and edition by Andrew Lamb. The works of Gilbert and Sullivan dominated nineteenth-century British comic opera from the start. Yet in neither London nor New York was a work of theirs the longest-running British comic opera of its time. Indeed, in New York The Mikado wasn't even the most successful British comic opera of its year. That distinction belongs to a work now virtually forgotten — Erm…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 08:28AM on September 11, 2012