Word: yvetot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French as frogs' legs, the beret-bearing, 60-year-old composer arrived at Tanglewood, in Massachusetts' Berkshires, to be guest instructor in composition. Before he left Paris, he had received a cable from Tanglewood's Serge Koussevitzky: "We will perform your [opera] Le Roi d'Yvetot. Are you happy...
...people of medieval Yvetot dethrone their king. Then the women find that their menfolk are too busy running the state to work their land or flatter their wives. So they rebel and restore the king. Meantime, the king does his bit by making love to a serving girl, who eventually becomes queen of Yvetot. That leaves the women in charge of things, as usual, and everybody takes it happily from there...
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