Amadis

This opera by the French composer Jules Massenet premiered in Monte
Carlo, in 1927, and was based on the Breton folk legend of King Perion who,
with his family, barely escaped before his island kingdom was swallowed up by
the sea with its wicked inhabitants. The story of Amadis belongs to “the Green
Isle” oral traditions of a sunken island city still preserved among various western
coastal populations in Belgium, the Netherlands, Brittany, Biscay (among the
Basque), Spain, and Portugal.