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Boniface, a china-shop owner, asks his neighbor Charlot to help sell his impulsive wife Angélique. Three prospective buyers are rejected, and even the devil refuses her. As Boniface prepares to hang himself, Angélique pleads at his feet and the couple reconcile; after the curtain, Boniface tells the audience he still wants to sell her.
Jacques Ibert’s two-act French-language opera takes Perseus and Andromeda as its subject. The available text does not provide the plot.
Boniface, a china-shop owner, asks his neighbor Charlot to help sell his impulsive wife Angélique. Three prospective buyers are rejected, and even the devil refuses her. As Boniface prepares to hang himself, Angélique pleads at his feet and the couple reconcile; after the curtain, Boniface tells the audience he still wants to sell her.
Jacques Ibert’s two-act French-language opera takes Perseus and Andromeda as its subject. The available text does not provide the plot.