Credits:

Patrick Fournillier

Description:

The story takes place in a fictional kingdom. King Uhu comes to town in search of a criminal to be executed by impalement, the main event of the festival scheduled for the following day. There, he encounters a young man named Lazuri. Lazuri falls in love at first sight with Laura, a member of a diplomatic delegation from a neighboring country, but is shocked to learn she is marriedand in his distress, he inadvertently insults King Ufu, who happens to be standing nearby. Seizing this opportunity, King Ufu frames Lazuri as the criminal, but just then, the fortune-teller Shiroko appears. Shiroko prophesied that the fates of the king and Lazuli are bound together; if one loses his life, the other will meet the same fate, so King Uhu is unable to carry out the execution. However, due to a scheme by the envoy Ellison, Lazuli is shot…In the late 1800s, when Offenbach was producing a series of