Victor Herbert: The Red Mill

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(1 stars) - Returned it
I'd always heard good things about the score and I was hoping to find a re-mastered version of an older performance first issued on LP. This CD has poor recording quality of less than skilled performances.

(5 stars) - Victor Herbert's most tuneful operetta.
Victor Herbert composed an incredible string of first-rate operettas, but none contains more great songs than the Red Mill. Admittedly the plot is silly, even by operetta standards, but the songs -- Moonbeams, Everyday is Ladies Day with Me, When You're Pretty and the World is Fair, The Sidewalks of New York, Because You're You, and more -- are terrific. Thank you Ohio Light Opera for resurrecting this neglected treasure. And please keep giving us more great operettas. Please encourage them -- and treat yourself -- by buying The Red Mill. There's got to be a market for music this good.

(5 stars) - Victor Herbert Scores Again
Out of what has to be the silliest and most unlikely plot, which creaks more than the least-oiled old windmill imaginable, the composer has spun a completely entertaining two hours worth of material to enjoy, and the Ohio Light Opera has once again done music-lovers the service of recording it uncut. There is always some carping over the lengthy and dated "books" of these works,
which were funnier, one imagines, a century ago in more innocent times. But Albany does the right thing by including all the spoken words along with the music, as a sort of historic documenting of the operetta--and we do have those wonderful CD tracks, and can hop along as we please if the silly plots lose their magic on repeated listenings--because the music doesn't.
The Red Mill manages to include ingredients of jazz, vaudeville
shtick and lovely operetta lyricism and the performance here will surely win over the grumpiest curmudgeon. A delight.

(5 stars) - the happiest old musical ever?
Finally a complete RED MILL which must be the only operetta, musical comedy, light opera and vaudeville ever put together in one show. Play this charming musical and forget all your worries and troubles. Travel back about 100 years and just wish you could be there. Hopefully Ohio Light Opera will continue there yearly Herbert contribution (they did Naughty Marietts last year) and follow with Sweethearts, Mlle. Modiste, Cyrano de Bergerac, Only Girl or Babes in Toyland. The price is high but worth every penny. Enjoy two CDs of pure happiness.

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