Friday, September 22, 2006

La Grande Duchesse and The Soldier Fritz


Only those who know that my NZ friend Kurt Ganzl is THE world authority on music halls and light opera will suspect the origin of their names (and of his property near Christchurch called Gerolstein). “The Grande Duchess of Gerolstein” is a 19th century comic opera by Offenbach. The Grand Duchess actually fancied Fritz in an un-motherly way, but had to be content with Baron Grog (is that the next baby, Kurt?) Anyway LGD (Sundon-Gwen-Gee Whiz II) has just produced the beautiful TSF in collaboration with Continentalman (Malabar Man - Continental Victory – Valley Victory). Wow!

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