Chabrier: The Star (movie)
Chabrier: L'étoile- Production country: FR
- Producer: François Roussillon , Laurent Pelly
- Production companies: Opéra Comique
- Genre: Music
- Release date: 3/1/2019
- Run time: 137 min.
Movie description
L’Étoile did much to establish Chabrier as a major force on the Parisian stage and his contemporary Henri Duparc praised him specifically for creating a French comic genre, both funny and musical – described as something of a French Die Meistersinger. The fanciful story is set in an imaginary kingdom and all, naturally, ends well. However, despite the slight plot line L’Étoile is something of a pivotal work, a unique example of French 19th-century light opera, orchestrated with great sophistication and flooded with gossamer wit.
