Le Roi Malgré Lui
Opera-comique in three acts Libretto by EMILE DE NAJAC and PAUL BURANI
Music by Chabrier (sung in French)
This masterpiece of the Opera-comique genre was much admired by the greatest French composers of this century. Ravel once remarked that he would be prouder to have written Le Roi Malgri Lui than Wagner's Ring.
BBC NORTHERN SINGERS. chorus-master STEPHEN WILKINSON
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conducted by MANUEL ROSENTHAL Repetiteur JOHN WILSON
Producer ERNEST WARBURTON
The opera is set in Poland In 1573. Act 1 A castle near Cracow
4.14* Emmanuel Chabrier
ROLLO MYERS talks about the composer of Le Rot Malgri Lui and his music.
4.25* The French Opera Le Roi Malgré Lui
Act 2 Laski s palace
5.25* Chabrier's Paris: Louis ALLEN looks at the intellectual and artistic life of the city.
5.41* The French Opera Le Roi Malgre Lui
Act 3 An inn near the frontier