A Santa Lucia
A two-act Italian verismo opera set in Naples’s Borgo Santa Lucia district.
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A two-act Italian verismo opera set in Naples’s Borgo Santa Lucia district.
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari’s three-act opera giocosa adapts Carlo Goldoni’s play Il ventaglio. The available text does not provide the plot.
In Naples, Gennaro is in love with his adoptive sister Maliella. Rafaele, leader of a Camorra band, pursues Maliella and promises to steal the Madonna’s jewels for her. Gennaro warns Maliella about Rafaele, but she rejects him and prepares to leave home. Gennaro steals the jewels and brings them to her; in a trance, Maliella mistakes him for Rafaele and yields to him. When Rafaele learns what happened, he rejects her. Maliella drowns herself, and Gennaro finds a knife and stabs himself.
Count Gil suspects his wife Susanna is having an affair when he smells tobacco in their home. Susanna admits a secret but withholds it, and Gil searches the house. After he returns repeatedly, he catches her smoking with their servant Sante; they reconcile and smoke together.
A two-act opera by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari based on Molière’s comedy L’Amour médecin. The work has an Italian libretto by Enrico Golisciani and premiered in a German version by Richard Batka.
A two-act Italian verismo opera set in Naples’s Borgo Santa Lucia district.
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari’s three-act opera giocosa adapts Carlo Goldoni’s play Il ventaglio. The available text does not provide the plot.
In Naples, Gennaro is in love with his adoptive sister Maliella. Rafaele, leader of a Camorra band, pursues Maliella and promises to steal the Madonna’s jewels for her. Gennaro warns Maliella about Rafaele, but she rejects him and prepares to leave home. Gennaro steals the jewels and brings them to her; in a trance, Maliella mistakes him for Rafaele and yields to him. When Rafaele learns what happened, he rejects her. Maliella drowns herself, and Gennaro finds a knife and stabs himself.
Count Gil suspects his wife Susanna is having an affair when he smells tobacco in their home. Susanna admits a secret but withholds it, and Gil searches the house. After he returns repeatedly, he catches her smoking with their servant Sante; they reconcile and smoke together.
A two-act opera by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari based on Molière’s comedy L’Amour médecin. The work has an Italian libretto by Enrico Golisciani and premiered in a German version by Richard Batka.