Chabrier: The Star
Directed by François Roussillon and Laurent Pelly
With Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Christophe Mortagne, Hélène Guilmette, Jérôme Varnier and Julie Boulianne
L’Étoile did much to establish Chabrier as a major force on the Parisian stage and his contemporary Henri Duparc praised him specifically for creating a French comic genre, both funny and musical – described as something of a French Die Meistersinger. The fanciful story is set in an imaginary kingdom and all, naturally, ends well. However, despite the slight plot line L’Étoile is something of a pivotal work, a unique example of French 19th-century light opera, orchestrated with great sophistication and flooded with gossamer wit.
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