'La Grande-Duchesse De Gerolstein'

Jacques Offenbach operettas come equipped with sparkling melodies, sharp social satire, highly theatrical set pieces, and comic verve. The satire victims of this Opera Boston show are militarism and those darn obsessions of the ruling class. When the operetta premiered in 1867 to celebrate the Exposition Universelle in Paris, visiting diplomats and dignitaries found themselves the targets of the composer's satirical pokes. Stephanie Blythe makes her Boston stage debut in the title role. The opera… Show more will be sung in French with spoken dialogue in English. -- June Wulff, Globe Staff

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Stephanie Blythe, one of the most highly-acclaimed artists in opera today, makes her Boston stage debut in the title role of Offenbach's spoiled and capricious but magnetic petty tyrant. As her army musters for a war devised solely for her amusement, the Grande-Duchesse becomes infatuated with a young soldier, whom she rapidly promotes to General. He just as quickly falls out of favor - and she joins in the assassination plot - when he marries his sweetheart.

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