Emmerich Kálmán’s THE LITTLE KING (The Ohio Light Opera, 2014 Summer Festival – DVD) Inspired by the love affair of famed French singer-actress Gaby Deslys and Portugal’s King Manuel II, who at age 20 was forced into exile, the plotline of The Little King concerns a boyish monarch who falls hard for a visiting opera singer, unaware that she is the daughter of a revolutionary and plotting his assassination. During her visit to his palace, she has a bomb planted in a bouquet of roses that she has ordered for the king. Only at the last second, when she can no longer resist his charms, does she discreetly defuse the bomb. Their almost-explosive love affair blossoms.
Directed by Steven A. Daigle
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Clark Sturdevant
The King
Christopher Olglesby
Field Marshall General Lincoln
Daniel Neer
Admiral Montbrison
Jayson Lebaron
Chief of Police
Michael Lucas
Lord Chamberlain
Nathan Brian
Colonel
Aidan Smerud
Lieutenant
Stephen Faulk
Lt. Lancelot
Natalie Ballenger
Anetta Montarini
Anthony P. Maida
Huck
Gretchen Windt
Gretchen Windt
Zaza
Arielle Schmidt
Daisy
Jamie Rappaport
Fifi
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