Frank Desprez was an English playwright, essayist, and poet. He wrote more than twenty pieces for the theatre, as well as numerous shorter works, including his famous poem, Lasca.
After All! is a one-act comic opera with a libretto by Frank Desprez and music by Alfred Cellier. In its story, a man returns after many years abroad to seek his youthful sweetheart but finds that she
Frank Desprez
…1876 Happy Hampstead (Richard D'Oyly Carte) 1 act, Alexandra Theatre, Liverpool 1878 After All! (Alfred Cellier) 1 act, (Opera Comique) 1879 Tita in Thibet, a.k.a. Brum, a Birmingham Merchant, Royalty Theatre…
Original programme cover
Programme for the unauthorised production of After All and H.M.S. Pinafore in 1879