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Beatrix Cenci

Music and Libretto · Opera · 1971

Count Francesco Cenci celebrates the death of his sons with a masked ball, while his daughter Beatrix and second wife Lucrecia fear him. Beatrix asks Orsino to deliver a plea to the Pope, but he destroys her letter and falsely says the Pope refused. After the guests leave, Cenci rapes Beatrix. Later, Beatrix and her brother Giacomo arrange for assassins to kill their father, with Lucrecia giving him a sleeping potion. When the body is discovered, Beatrix is arrested, tortured, and executed.

Bomarzo

Music · Opera · 1967

The hunchbacked Duke Pier Francesco Orsini drinks a potion his astrologer says will grant him immortality. As the poison takes effect, he recalls episodes from his life: the death of his father and brothers, his troubled courtship and marriage to Julia Farnese, and his suspicion that she is betraying him with his brother Maerbale. He orders his slave Abul to kill Maerbale. The astrologer prepares the potion again as Bomarzo’s nephew Nicolás watches; Nicolás poisons it, and the Duke dies after drinking.

Don Rodrigo

Music · Opera · 1964

After avenging an attack on his father, Rodrigo is crowned King of Spain. Don Julian entrusts his daughter Florinda to the court, and Rodrigo promises to protect her. At his coronation Rodrigo opens a forbidden chest and discovers an Arab flag and a curse that he will be the last of his dynasty. He later rapes Florinda, who writes to her father demanding revenge. Don Julian rebels, defeats Rodrigo at Guadalete, and the Moors enter Spain. Rodrigo becomes a vagrant and, after sheltering with a blind hermit, meets Florinda again, confesses his wrongdoing, and dies in her embrace.

Estancia

Composer · Ballet · 1952

A city boy loves a rancher's daughter, who doubts his courage beside the gauchos. He wins her over by outdancing them in a competition. The ballet's scenes follow the rhythms of ranch life from dawn through day and night to a final Malambo.

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