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Posted By: MorwenEdhelwen1
26-Jul-12 - 07:44 PM
Thread Name: The Rose of Algeria (Herbert, MacDonagh)
Subject: The Rose of Algeria (Herbert, MacDonagh)
l recently discovered this Victor Herbert production, originally called "Algeria," but then revamped and given a new name. The plot is like a genderflipped Desert Song meets Cyrano de Bergerac in Algeria.
The heroine, an Arab noblewoman, disguises herself as a dancer and goes out onto the streets to discover the identity of this mysterious poet whose words she's fallen in love with because he's the only man she wants to marry. He turns out to be a French Legionnaire.