Alfred Klein

Alfred Asher Klein (May 12, 1861 – February 21, 1904) was an English-born stage actor, singer and comedian who appeared in operettas and musical theatre in America in the late 19th century.

Life and career

Klein was born in Norwich, England in 1861, and emigrated to the United States as a young man. He had five brothers: the dramatist Charles, the composer Manuel, the music critic Herman, the violinist Max, and Philip. They had a sister, Adelaide. His first appearances on stage included Sir Joseph in a juvenile production of H.M.S. Pinafore in 1879, and a role with the traveling company of Only a Farmer's Daughter around 1881.

Small in stature, Klein's notable roles included Buttons in The Rajah in 1883, where he had fall into a tank of water in the third act. In 1891, he appeared in the musical Wang with DeWolf Hopper, and in 1896 in the operetta El Capitan.

Klein died in Amityville, New York on February 21, 1904 after a three year illness, survived by his wife and two children.

Alfred

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Alfred (Dvořák)

Alfred is a heroic opera in three acts by the Czech composer Antonín Dvořák. It was Dvořák's first opera and the only one he composed to a German text. The libretto, by Karl Theodor Korner, had already been set by Friedrich von Flotow (as Alfred der Große) and is based on the story of the English king Alfred the Great. Composed in 1870, Alfred was never performed during Dvořák's lifetime. It received its premiere (in Czech translation) at the City Theatre, Olomouc on 10 December 1938.

The opera was performed for the first time with its original German libretto on 17 September 2014, in Prague.

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Alfred of Sherborne

Alfred was a medieval Bishop of Sherborne.

Alfred was consecrated between 932 and 934. He died between 939 and 943.

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