L'Étoile

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L'étoile is an operetta by Emmanuel Chabrier with libretto by Eugène Leterrier and Albert Vanloo. It premiered on 28 November 1877 at Offenbach's Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiennes.

It debuted in New York City in 1899, ineptly rewritten and titled The Merry Monarch, with new music by Woolson Morse. It fared no better in London, where the score was rewritten by Ivan Caryll. In Brussels in 1909 Chabrier's music was restored. The operetta's first major revival was in 1941 in Paris under Nazi occupation, at which time the highlights of the score were recorded; the first complete recording came in 1985.

The operetta's plot involves King Ouf, who roams his kingdom looking for someone to execute in honor of his birthday, a mission of foreigners determined to marry their daughter to Ouf, a poor peddler named Lazuli (a pants role), and a royal astrologer, whose skills eventually lead to a happy ending.

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