Emmanuel Chabrier: Le Roi malgré lui - Nocturne à deux voix (Acte III)

The nocturne from Act III from the comic opera “Le Roi malgré lui“ (King in spite of himself) by French composer Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894). The libretto of this opera is a real mess, as it was written by in collaboration by two mediocre playwrights Emile de Najac and Paul Burani, partially revised by the poet Jean Richepin and later by Chabrier himself after Richepin gave up the work, disgusted. Chabrier called the libretto a “a bouillabaisse of Najac and Burani, cooked by Richepin, into which I throw