The Sultan of Mocha

[note 1] The production borrowed a camel from the local zoo for Middle-Eastern authenticity; it ran initially for 30 performances from 16 November to 9 December 1874, with Furneaux Cook in the title role[4] and Bessie Emmett as Dolly.

Following instead the tones of Sullivan's Contrabandista and Clay's The Gentleman in Black and Cattarina, Cellier's music for The Sultan of Mocha helped establish the kind of English comic-opera score which would find its apogée in the Savoy operas and his own Dorothy.

[3]Its first revival was at the St James' Theatre in London from 17 April to 2 June 1876, a run of 47 performances, with Constance Loseby as Dolly, George W. Anson as Admiral Sneak, Alfred Brennir as Peter and Henri Corri as the Sultan and a chorus of 70.

Bracy was Peter, Lilian Tree was Dolly, John Forde was Sneak, Knight Aston was the Sultan, Flora Granpner was Lucy and William Stevens was Flint.

However, her slave-trader uncle, Captain Flint, does not regard either of these as suitable suitors for his niece and believing he can make an arrangement more advantageous to himself sails off to sea taking Dolly with him.

[1][10] The original 1874 production in Manchester had the following cast: For the 1887 revival the version of 1874 underwent a major rewriting, with Admiral Sneak, a villain in 1874 becoming Dolly's father, while other characters disappear and others appear.