Le Pauvre Matelot

About the show

After fifteen years away, a sailor returns wealthy but unrecognized and visits his wife disguised as a stranger. He tells her that her husband is coming home, then rents a room at her bar. When she later finds him asleep, she kills him with a hammer and takes his valuables, while her father-in-law helps conceal the body. Still believing her husband will return, she sings of his approaching homecoming.