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doctor arrives – it is, of course, Silvio again, back in the Doctor
Miracle disguise. He offers to cure the mayor in return for Laurette's hand in marriage. The mayor concedes defeat and agrees to the marriage, at which Silvio declares that the omelette wasn't poisoned after all. Thoroughly outwitted, the mayor offers Laurette to Silvio and the opera ends in an ensemble in which they all agree that the phony doctor did after all have the cure for everything, which is Love.
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in the middle of the nineteenth century. The mayor and his wife VĂ©ronique are woken up very early one morning by what appears to be a noisy advertising campaign outside their house, shouting the talents of a Doctor
Miracle. This is, in fact, a young officer, Silvio, who had thought up this ruse in
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arrives from Silvio confessing that the omelette was in fact poisoned. The mayor is terrified, but
Laurette tells him that she knows a wonderful doctor who will be able to cure him. In a panic, the mayor promises to give this doctor anything he wants in return for the antidote to the poison. The
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