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A tale of fortune found and lost and a satire on the snobbery of class

Two just-married Venetian gondoliers are informed that one of them has just become the King of "Barataria", but only their foster mother, knows which one. Barataria needs a king to control some civil unrest, so they travel there to reign together, leaving their wives behind in Venice until the foster mother can be found. It turns out that the king was wed in infancy to the daughter of a Spanish Duke and so it seems he is bigamist.
Author(s)Gilbert and Sullivan
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