L'étoile (The Star)

Opéra bouffe in three acts. 1877. Libretto by Eugène Leterrier and Albert Vanloo.
First performance by the Bouffes-Parisiens on 28th November 1877.

The light opera finds King Ouf cancelling a proposed execution when he discovers that his intended victim, Lazuli, shares the same star and will die on the same day, making it necessary to cosset him.