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From a palace balcony, Goulgouly falls in love with Fisch-Ton-Kan, who reveals he is a Tartar prince exiled as a baby. Emperor Kakao orders foreigners to surrender an ear and attempts to kill Fisch-Ton-Kan, first by boiling him in a teapot and then by impalement. Fisch-Ton-Kan escapes by removing a beetle from Kakao’s nose and wins Goulgouly’s hand. This plot is summarized from the original play.
An unfinished comic opérette by Chabrier to a French libretto by Paul Verlaine; its surviving numbers portray the cowardly, bawdy title character as a satire of Napoleon III.
From a palace balcony, Goulgouly falls in love with Fisch-Ton-Kan, who reveals he is a Tartar prince exiled as a baby. Emperor Kakao orders foreigners to surrender an ear and attempts to kill Fisch-Ton-Kan, first by boiling him in a teapot and then by impalement. Fisch-Ton-Kan escapes by removing a beetle from Kakao’s nose and wins Goulgouly’s hand. This plot is summarized from the original play.
An unfinished comic opérette by Chabrier to a French libretto by Paul Verlaine; its surviving numbers portray the cowardly, bawdy title character as a satire of Napoleon III.