Chabrier: L’étoile

In disguise, whilst searching for his next victim, King Ouf encounters Lazuli who is heartbroken over a lost love. After a heated exchange, the king sentences Lazuli to death only to be thwarted by the royal astrologer Siroco, whose predictions reveal Lazuli’s fate is closely linked to the king’s own mortality. Consequently, Lazuli is spared and lavished with luxuries, but remains closely watched as he plots to win the heart of Laoula, the woma...