Das Land des Lächelns
After the Second World War, the Sadler's Wells company made a 78 r.p.m. set of excerpts from "Simon Boccanegra" (1949), but made no more recordings until the stereo LP era. In the 1950s and 1960s, the company recorded a series of abridged sets of operas and operettas for EMI, each occupying two LP sides. All were sung in English. The opera sets were "Madame Butterfly" (1960), "Il trovatore" (1962), and "Hansel and Gretel" (1966). The abridged operetta recordings were "Die Fledermaus" (1959), "The Merry Widow" (1959), "The Land of Smiles" (1960), "La vie parisienne" (1961), "Orpheus in the Underworld" (1960), "Iolanthe" (1962), "La belle Hélène" (1963) and "The Gypsy Baron" (1965). A complete recording of "The Mikado" was released in 1962.