Although in Pausole's kingdom morals are somewhat relaxed, and the monarch has a wife for each day of the year, in respect of his own daughter the king is more strict. During a ballet given for the women of the harem, Aline falls for Mirabelle, a girl dressed as a boy dancer. Aline elopes with Mirabelle and King Pausole must set off to search for his daughter. The initial gender confusion clears, but other characters, all of them young and ready to love, add to the merry confusion at a country inn which becomes, thanks to King Pausole’s adventures, an experimental site for free love and modern sexual morals (thanks, in part, to a prophetic use of the telephone…).
Cast and Creative Team for Les Aventures du roi Pausole at Grand Théâtre de Genève
Musical Director Claude Schnitzler
Stage Director Robert Sandoz
Set and Costume Designer Gian Maurizio Fercioni
Lighting Designer Simon Trottet
Chorus Director Ching-Lien Wu
Roi Pausole Jean-Philippe Lafont
Taxis Mark Milhofer
La Blanche Aline Sophie Angebault
Giglio Loïc Felix
Diane à la Houppe Ingrid Perruche
Dame Perchuque Doris Lamprecht
Thierette Elisa Cenni
Mirabelle Lamia Beuque
Métayer Alexandre Diakoff
