Victor August Herbert was an American composer, cellist and conductor of English and Irish ancestry and German training. Although Herbert enjoyed important careers as a cello soloist and conductor, he
Victor Herbert in 1906
Concert poster for Eduard Strauss's orchestra
Photo from Prince Ananias (1894), Herbert's first operetta
Sheet music for the title song from Sweethearts
Light Opera of Manhattan, known as LOOM, was an off-Broadway repertory theatre company that produced light operas, including the works of Gilbert and Sullivan and European and American operettas, 52 w
William Mount-Burke, LOOM's founder and artistic director
The Pirates of Penzance was LOOM's first production in 1968
Allen as Sir Joseph in H.M.S. Pinafore