Three years later, its English version by librettist Leonard Liebling had a run of 64 performances at Broadway's Herald Square Theatre in 1910/11 under the title The Girl and the Kaiser.
[1] The work is known in English as The Girl and the Kaiser, The Bohemian Dancer, The Forester's Daughter and in French as La petite amie de sa majesté and Christelle et l'empereur.
Time and place: At the Hungarian border and in Vienna, 1764 In short: The title character (Christine) impulsively falls in love with a handsome stranger, never suspecting that the man is really the Austrian emperor Joseph II.
Upon learning the emperor's true identity, Christine pleads with him to save her former boyfriend, rebel leader Franz Földessy, from the firing squad.
When she meets Franz again, she is cold and rebuffs him, but she is overjoyed and blissful when the Emperor asks her for a dance at the court ball.