La Périchole

About the show

Impoverished singers La Périchole and Piquillo cannot afford a marriage licence. The Viceroy offers La Périchole a place at court, and she writes Piquillo a farewell letter. Both are plied with drink and unknowingly agree to marry each other, after which Piquillo discovers that his bride is the Viceroy’s new favourite. He is sent to prison for humiliating her publicly. La Périchole visits him, but the disguised Viceroy catches them and chains them up. They escape with help from an old prisoner, then perform their love story for the Viceroy, who forgives them and the old prisoner.