Tags: Musical.
Leo the Royal Cadet is a light opera with music by Oscar Ferdinand Telgmann. The libretto was by George Frederick Cameron. It was composed in Kingston Ontario Canada in 1889. The work centres on Nellie’s love for Leo a cadet at the Royal Military College of Canada who becomes a hero serving during the Anglo-Zulu War in 1879 between the British Empire and the Zulu Empire. The operetta focussed on typical character types events and concerns of Telgmann and Cameron’s time and place.
