A Feast in the Time of Plague
In two sections, “Arrivals” and “Departures,” twelve archetypal characters gather for a last supper and reflect on risk, life, and death. Most of them die before departing.
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In two sections, “Arrivals” and “Departures,” twelve archetypal characters gather for a last supper and reflect on risk, life, and death. Most of them die before departing.
Fleeing a revolution, the Count’s household is captured at a border by the Major, who seeks power over them. The Major reveals Angelika is the Count’s child and that Serafin is the child of the Countess and Cherubino. Figaro and Susanna quarrel over whether to have a child; Susanna encounters Cherubino, now a bar proprietor, who employs her as a chanteuse. The Countess rejects the Major’s blackmail and tells the Count Serafin’s parentage; Susanna reveals she is pregnant by Cherubino. Figaro helps the family escape, shooting Cherubino. The Major’s plan to trap them at the castle fails: Figaro, Susanna, Angelika and Serafin escape through a secret passage while the Count and Countess remain.
The opera interweaves three stories of student activism: James Meredith’s struggle to enter the University of Mississippi, the White Rose resistance group in Nazi Germany, and Chinese students pressured to denounce their parents during the Cultural Revolution. The narratives converge at the end.
In the final seconds before Mr Emmet dies by suicide on a railway line, thoughts, memories, ideas, and musical fragments pass through his mind over the work’s fifty-minute span.
In a totalitarian future, the Doctor tells a child the legend of a shepherd whose wife returned to a lake after he struck her three times, leaving healing powers to his descendants. A spreading disease afflicts anyone struck in the rain. The Doctor warns the Ruler, who suppresses the story; during a confrontation in the rain, the Doctor strikes and infects him. The Ruler seeks a cure at the lake, but the Doctor refuses. The sick crowd tramples the Doctor to death, and the Child orders the Ruler into the lake before becoming the new Doctor of Myddfai.
In two sections, “Arrivals” and “Departures,” twelve archetypal characters gather for a last supper and reflect on risk, life, and death. Most of them die before departing.
Fleeing a revolution, the Count’s household is captured at a border by the Major, who seeks power over them. The Major reveals Angelika is the Count’s child and that Serafin is the child of the Countess and Cherubino. Figaro and Susanna quarrel over whether to have a child; Susanna encounters Cherubino, now a bar proprietor, who employs her as a chanteuse. The Countess rejects the Major’s blackmail and tells the Count Serafin’s parentage; Susanna reveals she is pregnant by Cherubino. Figaro helps the family escape, shooting Cherubino. The Major’s plan to trap them at the castle fails: Figaro, Susanna, Angelika and Serafin escape through a secret passage while the Count and Countess remain.
The opera interweaves three stories of student activism: James Meredith’s struggle to enter the University of Mississippi, the White Rose resistance group in Nazi Germany, and Chinese students pressured to denounce their parents during the Cultural Revolution. The narratives converge at the end.
In the final seconds before Mr Emmet dies by suicide on a railway line, thoughts, memories, ideas, and musical fragments pass through his mind over the work’s fifty-minute span.
In a totalitarian future, the Doctor tells a child the legend of a shepherd whose wife returned to a lake after he struck her three times, leaving healing powers to his descendants. A spreading disease afflicts anyone struck in the rain. The Doctor warns the Ruler, who suppresses the story; during a confrontation in the rain, the Doctor strikes and infects him. The Ruler seeks a cure at the lake, but the Doctor refuses. The sick crowd tramples the Doctor to death, and the Child orders the Ruler into the lake before becoming the new Doctor of Myddfai.