Les Aventures du roi Pausole at Grand Théâtre de Genève

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…).