Le roi l'a dit
- Marquis de Montcour: Bass
- Marquisede Montcour, his wife: Mezzo- soprano
- Philomène, whose daughter, soprano
- Agathe, whose daughter, soprano
- Chimène whose daughter: Old
- Angélique, whose daughter: Old
- Pacome, a servant: Tenor
- Baron de Merlussac: Tenor
- Gautru, a banker: Bass
- Marquis de Flarambel: Tenor
- Marquis de Bluette: Baritone
- Javotte, a maid: Soprano
- Miton, a dance teacher: Tenor
- Benoît, a farmer: Tenor
The king hath spoken ( French Le roi l'a dit ) is a comic opera in three acts by the French composer Léo Delibes; the libretto created Edmond Gondinet. Your premiere experienced this opera on 24 May 1873 the Opéra -Comique in Paris.
The librettist Ferdinand Gumbert and Adolf Schirmer translated the texts and in German language was the king said to see it for the first time in 1874 in Vienna. After Germany they came a few years later and was first brought in 1877 in Berlin on the stage.
1898 Philippe Gille edited this work and cut it in two acts. In this form, then this opera had its premiere also at the Opéra -Comique (Paris).
Action
The favorite parrot of Mme de Maintenon had escaped and Marquis de Montcour had the honor and pleasure, this recapture.
In return for which to Mme de Maintenon used for the Marquis and introduces him to King Louis XIV. When the king directed the word at him, he is so confused that he claims to have a son. Since the Marwuis but only has four daughters, he adopted shortly decided the farmers Benoît and places him at court as his son before.
Benoît enjoys life on the farm and there are the " grand seigneur ". But since he staged all kinds of pranks doubt more and more people to his aristocratic origin. As he lights a monastery to free his four step-sisters, who are educated there, derailed this prank. The entire monastery complex falls victim to the flames and in the result, Benoît has to face a duel. When he is injured, Marquis de Montcour takes this occasion to his "son " dead to explain.
King Louis XIV tried to alleviate the grief of the Marquis and raises him unceremoniously into a prince. To celebrate the day Benoit gets the maid Javotte to wife. Located in the cheers of the audience, the curtain falls.