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  • The third and final production of the season will be Offenbach's seldom performed operetta "La Grande-Duchesse de Gerolstein," with mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe making her Boston stage debut in the title role.

    DesignerBlog Will 2009

  • The third and final production of the season will be Offenbach's seldom performed operetta "La Grande-Duchesse de Gerolstein," with mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe making her Boston stage debut in the title role.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Will 2009

  • Pelm is 2-3/4 miles from Gerolstein, and yet over this short distance between the two villages there are laid down six parallel lines of rail, besides numerous additional sidings.

    The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 Various

  • In fact the knot of lines around Junkerath, Pelm and Gerolstein is a marvel of construction for heavy, rapid transit, for no congestion would arise in a case of a sudden flood of traffic going in various directions, and to secure still more freedom the line from Gerolstein to

    The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 Various

  • Pronsfeld, and the health resort of Gerolstein of comic opera fame, all of less than 1,300 inhabitants, have been linked up by double-track lines with towns like Remagen, St. Vith, and Andernach, whose populations only range from 1,500 to 9,000.

    The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 Various

  • Offenbach's "Grand Duchesse of Gerolstein," where the Grand Duchess, talking to the guardsman whose athletic proportions she admires, addresses him with a rising scale of "corporal" ... "sergeant" ...

    William of Germany Stanley Shaw

  • The following anecdote may remind the reader of the amusing scene in Offenbach's “Grand Duchesse of Gerolstein,” where the Grand Duchess, talking to the guardsman whose athletic proportions she admires, addresses him with a rising scale of “corporal” ... “sergeant” ...

    William of Germany Shaw, Stanley 1913

  • Rudolph was the reigning Duke of the German State of Gerolstein.

    The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction Various 1910

  • It was Sarah who now, having learned of Rudolph's presence in Paris, had hurried hither to seek an interview with him, hoping to effect a reconciliation, now that the old Grand Duke was dead and Rudolph sovereign Prince of Gerolstein.

    The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction Various 1910

  • For example, Pelm is 2-3/4 miles from Gerolstein, a town principally of comic-opera fame, and yet over this short distance, between the two villages, there are laid down six parallel lines of rail, besides numerous additional sidings ....

    The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers Francis Trevelyan Miller 1902

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