The Little King
2016Emmerich 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.
Acted in
Clark Sturdevant
as The King
Christopher Olglesby
as Field Marshall General Lincoln
Daniel Neer
as Admiral Montbrison
Jayson Lebaron
as Chief of Police
Michael Lucas
as Lord Chamberlain
Nathan Brian
as Colonel
Aidan Smerud
as Lieutenant
Stephen Faulk
as Lt. Lancelot
Natalie Ballenger
as Anetta Montarini
Anthony P. Maida
as Huck
Gretchen Windt
Gretchen Windt
as Zaza
Arielle Schmidt
as Daisy
Jamie Rappaport
as Fifi
Christopher Calderazzo
as Hedy
Spencer Reese
as Doltschi
Michael Lucas
as Old Lackey
C. J. David
as Petty Officer