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Toronto: Toronto Operetta Theatre finds a new prince for “The Student Prince” opening November 1

Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Toronto Operetta Theatre opens its 2024-2025 season opens with a new production of The Student Prince, an operetta by Sigmund Romberg that became a massive hit in the 1920s.

Romberg’s THE STUDENT PRINCE premiered on Broadway at the 59th Street Theatre on December 2, 1924 and became the longest running show of the 1920s. TOT celebrates this musical milestone with a new production on Nov. 1, 2, and 3, 2024 at the St. Lawrence Centre. The tunes are endless – ‘The Drinking Song’, ‘Serenade’, ‘Deep in My Heart’ and ‘Golden Days’ among others. And we all shed a tear for our star-crossed lovers – Kathie and Prince Karl Franz – as they move from the idealism of young love to the realities of adulthood.

Jacob Abrahamse had been scheduled to sing Prince Karl Franz, but he has been sidelined by Covid. (Yes, Covid has not gone away.) TOT has announced that his replacement will be Xavier Flory.

Xavier Flory is an emerging tenor, whose recent and upcoming engagements include Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Maryland), Tamino in Die Zauberflöte (Toronto), Macduff in Macbeth (Virginia, USA), Ernesto in Don Pasquale (Toronto), Rodolfo in La Bohème (Virginia) and Lieder recitals in Prague and New York. He started his singing career as a soprano soloist with the Vienna Boys Choir, where he sang over 200 performances, including dozens of performances at the Wiener Staatsoper, and as Gretel in Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel on tour across China and Germany. He has a double PhD in Political Theory from Columbia University and Sciences Po Paris.

For tickets visit www.ticketmaster.ca.

Photo: Xavier Flory.