Credits:

Laurence Equilbey

Description:

Siblet, the daughter of a farmer in the Paris suburbs, goes to the Paris market every morning to sell vegetables. She plans to get married when she turns 21, and while looking for a husband, she ended up getting engaged to eight men. However, she cant bring herself to feel true love for any of them. One day, when she has her palm read by a fortune-teller at the market, she receives only a cryptic answer: Youll find happiness when youre handed a strange letter. To make matters worse, she fails to sell the vegetables she brought and is feeling dejected when the market manager, Duparc, arrives with Antonin, a wealthy viscount who had just been dumped the night before by the high-class courtesan Zenobie. The two of them buy the vegetables from Sibylle, but…How will Siblette find a wonderful lover?The comic opera *Siblette* by Reynaldo Hahna close friend of the writer Proust and also known as