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Fernando returns to Agrigento in disguise to avenge his father, Duke Carlo, whom he believes dead and whose throne was seized by Filippo. His sister Bianca, unaware of Filippo’s crimes, is preparing to marry him and at first fails to recognize Fernando. The siblings reunite, expose Filippo, and free Carlo; when Filippo threatens Bianca’s infant son, Fernando’s allies disarm him and the tyrant is overthrown.
Empress Fausta falls in love with her stepson Crispo, who loves the captive Beroe. After Fausta’s advances are exposed, Crispo is condemned for treason through the schemes of her father Massimiano. Fausta tries to save him with poison, but the execution has already occurred. Constantine receives proof of Crispo’s innocence too late; Fausta dies, and Massimiano is exposed.
To protect his beautiful wife Francesca from the French court, the Count tells the king she is ugly. The king sends the Duke to investigate; the Duke persuades Francesca to return to Paris. When the king announces that a tournament winner will marry her, the Count admits his jealousy and deceit. The king admonishes him, then forgives the couple.
Princess Matilde flees an arranged marriage and is rescued from pirates by shipowner Gianni, whom she marries. Years later, the king summons Gianni to help search for his missing daughter. Gianni realizes Matilde’s identity, and she returns to court. A rejected suitor attempts to kidnap their son, but Rustano rescues him; the king punishes the suitor and accepts Gianni as Matilde’s husband.
At a Paris mental hospital, Norina and her husband Blinval pretend to be mad to test each other’s feelings after separation and jealousy. Their deceptions intersect with a trumpeter posing as a doctor and Cristina’s guardian, who wants her dowry; the farce ends with the misunderstandings resolved.
Peter the Great works incognito as a carpenter in Saardam alongside the Russian defector Flimann, who hopes to marry the mayor’s daughter Marietta. The mayor mistakes Flimann for the Tsar. When Peter is called home to suppress a revolt, he reveals his identity and grants Flimann a title that enables him to marry Marietta.
An opera by Gaetano Donizetti depicting the biblical story of Noah and the great flood.
Nina and Teodoro love each other, but Nina is promised to Ernesto. Sigismondo and Camilla plot to frighten Ernesto away; he learns of their scheme and turns it against them. He finally agrees to Nina and Teodoro’s marriage, and Sigismondo renounces jealousy.
In Benares, Idamore, a warrior leader who is secretly a Pariah, loves Neala, daughter of Brahmin high priest Akebare. Idamore plans to marry Neala and flee, but his father Zarete arrives and demands equality for Pariahs. When Idamore reveals his origins, Akebare sentences both men to death; Neala joins them, while Akebare rejoices at the prospect of taking the empire.
Septimius, a tribune exiled for political reasons, secretly returns to Rome to see Argelia, daughter of the senator Murena. After Murena condemns him, he resolves to die rather than escape; remorse drives Murena to confess, and the emperor pardons both men.
A one-act farsa by Gaetano Donizetti that satirizes Romanticism. In its finale, Antonina tells her father she will give up willows, cypresses, urns and ashes for singing, dancing and opera.
A provincial opera company struggles through rehearsals of a seria, as its diva refuses to cooperate and its German tenor cannot learn the music. Mamma Agata demands a solo for her daughter and dictates its arrangement; when the tenor quits, the company’s performance collapses, and the troupe flees town rather than repay its investors.
Elisabetta sets out from Siberia for Moscow to seek a pardon for her wrongly exiled parents. On the journey she befriends a Tartar group, survives a flood, and exposes the injustice to the Tsar, who pardons and reunites her family.
Fernando returns to Agrigento in disguise to avenge his father, Duke Carlo, whom he believes dead and whose throne was seized by Filippo. His sister Bianca, unaware of Filippo’s crimes, is preparing to marry him and at first fails to recognize Fernando. The siblings reunite, expose Filippo, and free Carlo; when Filippo threatens Bianca’s infant son, Fernando’s allies disarm him and the tyrant is overthrown.
Empress Fausta falls in love with her stepson Crispo, who loves the captive Beroe. After Fausta’s advances are exposed, Crispo is condemned for treason through the schemes of her father Massimiano. Fausta tries to save him with poison, but the execution has already occurred. Constantine receives proof of Crispo’s innocence too late; Fausta dies, and Massimiano is exposed.
To protect his beautiful wife Francesca from the French court, the Count tells the king she is ugly. The king sends the Duke to investigate; the Duke persuades Francesca to return to Paris. When the king announces that a tournament winner will marry her, the Count admits his jealousy and deceit. The king admonishes him, then forgives the couple.
Princess Matilde flees an arranged marriage and is rescued from pirates by shipowner Gianni, whom she marries. Years later, the king summons Gianni to help search for his missing daughter. Gianni realizes Matilde’s identity, and she returns to court. A rejected suitor attempts to kidnap their son, but Rustano rescues him; the king punishes the suitor and accepts Gianni as Matilde’s husband.
At a Paris mental hospital, Norina and her husband Blinval pretend to be mad to test each other’s feelings after separation and jealousy. Their deceptions intersect with a trumpeter posing as a doctor and Cristina’s guardian, who wants her dowry; the farce ends with the misunderstandings resolved.
Peter the Great works incognito as a carpenter in Saardam alongside the Russian defector Flimann, who hopes to marry the mayor’s daughter Marietta. The mayor mistakes Flimann for the Tsar. When Peter is called home to suppress a revolt, he reveals his identity and grants Flimann a title that enables him to marry Marietta.
An opera by Gaetano Donizetti depicting the biblical story of Noah and the great flood.
Nina and Teodoro love each other, but Nina is promised to Ernesto. Sigismondo and Camilla plot to frighten Ernesto away; he learns of their scheme and turns it against them. He finally agrees to Nina and Teodoro’s marriage, and Sigismondo renounces jealousy.
In Benares, Idamore, a warrior leader who is secretly a Pariah, loves Neala, daughter of Brahmin high priest Akebare. Idamore plans to marry Neala and flee, but his father Zarete arrives and demands equality for Pariahs. When Idamore reveals his origins, Akebare sentences both men to death; Neala joins them, while Akebare rejoices at the prospect of taking the empire.
Septimius, a tribune exiled for political reasons, secretly returns to Rome to see Argelia, daughter of the senator Murena. After Murena condemns him, he resolves to die rather than escape; remorse drives Murena to confess, and the emperor pardons both men.
A one-act farsa by Gaetano Donizetti that satirizes Romanticism. In its finale, Antonina tells her father she will give up willows, cypresses, urns and ashes for singing, dancing and opera.
A provincial opera company struggles through rehearsals of a seria, as its diva refuses to cooperate and its German tenor cannot learn the music. Mamma Agata demands a solo for her daughter and dictates its arrangement; when the tenor quits, the company’s performance collapses, and the troupe flees town rather than repay its investors.
Elisabetta sets out from Siberia for Moscow to seek a pardon for her wrongly exiled parents. On the journey she befriends a Tartar group, survives a flood, and exposes the injustice to the Tsar, who pardons and reunites her family.