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All characters are farmyard animals. Chantecler, a rooster who believes his crowing brings the sun, defends his ideals against cynicism and fashionable artificiality. After a pheasant distracts him and the nightingale’s song reveals beauty beyond his own, he learns dawn arrives without him but returns to crow because his call gives the farm courage to greet the day.
Parker’s Broadway adaptation of Rostand’s animal verse play centers on Chantecler, a rooster who believes his crowing brings sunrise and must defend his idealism against cynicism and artificiality.
Travis Park, a Korean American teacher in Wyoming, falls for a new colleague but believes she prefers white men. He writes love letters for a friend instead, drawing the three into a romantic conflict shaped by race and self-doubt.
Cyrano loves Roxane but helps the less eloquent Christian win her by writing letters and feeding him words from beneath her balcony. Christian dies in battle, leaving Roxane to cherish the letters; years later she recognizes Cyrano as their author shortly before he dies of his wounds.
Cyrano loves Roxane but believes she cannot love him because of his large nose. Roxane loves Christian, a handsome but inarticulate soldier. Cyrano writes letters to Roxane in Christian’s name and speaks for him beneath her balcony, enabling Christian to win her. During the siege of Arras, Roxane tells Christian she would love him even if he were ugly. Christian realizes she loves Cyrano’s words and asks him to reveal the truth, but dies before he can do so. Fifteen years later, Roxane recognizes Cyrano as the author of the letters as he dies in her arms.
Cyrano, a gifted but self-conscious soldier and poet, loves Roxane, who loves the handsome Christian. Cyrano supplies Christian with eloquent letters and words, concealing his own love until the deception is revealed after Christian's death.
Opera in three acts and an epilogue based on Edmond Rostand’s play. Its title character is described as a poet and cadet with a range from humor to tragedy; the entry supplies no plot synopsis.
Napoleon II, held under guard at the Austrian court of his grandfather, dreams of returning to France and restoring his family's power, but Metternich thwarts his escape and failing health ends his ambitions.
Napoleon II, the Duke of Reichstadt, escapes Austrian imprisonment with his faithful footman Séraphin Flambeau and visits the former battlefield at Wagram. He eventually dies of tuberculosis.
All characters are farmyard animals. Chantecler, a rooster who believes his crowing brings the sun, defends his ideals against cynicism and fashionable artificiality. After a pheasant distracts him and the nightingale’s song reveals beauty beyond his own, he learns dawn arrives without him but returns to crow because his call gives the farm courage to greet the day.
Parker’s Broadway adaptation of Rostand’s animal verse play centers on Chantecler, a rooster who believes his crowing brings sunrise and must defend his idealism against cynicism and artificiality.
Travis Park, a Korean American teacher in Wyoming, falls for a new colleague but believes she prefers white men. He writes love letters for a friend instead, drawing the three into a romantic conflict shaped by race and self-doubt.
Cyrano loves Roxane but helps the less eloquent Christian win her by writing letters and feeding him words from beneath her balcony. Christian dies in battle, leaving Roxane to cherish the letters; years later she recognizes Cyrano as their author shortly before he dies of his wounds.
Cyrano loves Roxane but believes she cannot love him because of his large nose. Roxane loves Christian, a handsome but inarticulate soldier. Cyrano writes letters to Roxane in Christian’s name and speaks for him beneath her balcony, enabling Christian to win her. During the siege of Arras, Roxane tells Christian she would love him even if he were ugly. Christian realizes she loves Cyrano’s words and asks him to reveal the truth, but dies before he can do so. Fifteen years later, Roxane recognizes Cyrano as the author of the letters as he dies in her arms.
Cyrano, a gifted but self-conscious soldier and poet, loves Roxane, who loves the handsome Christian. Cyrano supplies Christian with eloquent letters and words, concealing his own love until the deception is revealed after Christian's death.
Opera in three acts and an epilogue based on Edmond Rostand’s play. Its title character is described as a poet and cadet with a range from humor to tragedy; the entry supplies no plot synopsis.
Napoleon II, held under guard at the Austrian court of his grandfather, dreams of returning to France and restoring his family's power, but Metternich thwarts his escape and failing health ends his ambitions.
Napoleon II, the Duke of Reichstadt, escapes Austrian imprisonment with his faithful footman Séraphin Flambeau and visits the former battlefield at Wagram. He eventually dies of tuberculosis.