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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Le roi d'Ys (The King of Ys) is an opera in three acts and five tableaux by the French composer Aedouard Lalo, to a libretto by Aedouard Blau, based on the old Breton legend of the drowned city of Ys, which was, according to the legend, the capital of the kingdom of Cornouaille. It premiered at the Opera Comique in Paris on 7 May 1888. Apart from the overture, the most famous piece in the opera is the tenor's aubade in Act III, Vainement, ma bien-aimee (In vain, my beloved). Lalo composed Le roi d'Ys between 1875 and 1878 (drafting entire opera, in first version, in 1875). His interest in the folklore of Brittany was prompted by his wife, the contralto Julie de Maligny, who was of Breton origin. The role of Margared was originally written for her.

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