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Riccardo Zandonai’s three-act opera adapts Charles Dickens’s The Cricket on the Hearth. Its characters include carrier John Peerybingle and his wife Dot, toymakers Caleb Plummer and Tackleton, and the Plummer family.
Prince Dimitri seduces Katiusha before leaving for war, then abandons her. Pregnant and expelled, she later sees him with another woman, falls into hardship and is wrongly convicted of murder. Dimitri offers to marry her, but she refuses. On the way to Siberia, Katiusha chooses to marry the political prisoner Simonson and devote herself to helping other prisoners, though she still loves Dimitri.
Riccardo Zandonai’s three-act opera adapts Charles Dickens’s The Cricket on the Hearth. Its characters include carrier John Peerybingle and his wife Dot, toymakers Caleb Plummer and Tackleton, and the Plummer family.
Prince Dimitri seduces Katiusha before leaving for war, then abandons her. Pregnant and expelled, she later sees him with another woman, falls into hardship and is wrongly convicted of murder. Dimitri offers to marry her, but she refuses. On the way to Siberia, Katiusha chooses to marry the political prisoner Simonson and devote herself to helping other prisoners, though she still loves Dimitri.