Das Himmelskleid
A princess rejects suitor after suitor and sends her most eligible suitor on a quest for the Garment of Heaven. Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari’s opera is based on Charles Perrault’s Donkeyskin.
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A princess rejects suitor after suitor and sends her most eligible suitor on a quest for the Garment of Heaven. Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari’s opera is based on Charles Perrault’s Donkeyskin.
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari’s three-act opera giocosa adapts Carlo Goldoni’s play Il ventaglio. The available text does not provide the plot.
Zeus tries to take the place of Amphitryon as he returns from war, hoping to approach Amphitryon’s wife Alcmene. Hera frustrates the plan by delaying the couple until morning, when Alcmene meets her real husband.
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.
In eighteenth-century Venice, four curmudgeonly husbands try to keep their wives and daughters under control. The women decide to defy them by arranging for Lucieta to meet Filipeto, her intended husband, before their arranged marriage.
In a small Venetian square in the mid-eighteenth century, visiting Neapolitan gentleman Astolfi flirts with several women, provoking jealousy among their suitors. Haberdasher Anzoleto and Luçieta plan to marry, though their relationship is marked by quarrels. Gasparina’s uncle Fabrizio discovers that Astolfi is bankrupt and that he himself is a lottery winner; Astolfi asks to marry Gasparina. As Anzoleto and Luçieta’s neighbors quarrel, Astolfi invites them all to dinner and announces that he and Gasparina will marry and leave Venice.
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.
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari’s three-act commedia lirica adapts Lope de Vega’s 1613 play La dama boba. The available text does not provide the plot.
Widow Rosaura is courted by four suitors from different countries. She disguises herself to test their fidelity, discovers that three are willing to deceive her, and chooses the one who resists her advances; he accepts her for love and their shared nationality.
In eighteenth-century Venice, two wives investigate what their husbands do at their club.
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.
Poet Sly drinks in a London tavern and later wakes in a palace, where he is told that he is its owner and has been in a coma for ten years. Believing the story, he falls in love with Dolly. When Sly learns the truth, he slashes his wrists; only then does he discover that Dolly loves him.
A princess rejects suitor after suitor and sends her most eligible suitor on a quest for the Garment of Heaven. Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari’s opera is based on Charles Perrault’s Donkeyskin.
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari’s three-act opera giocosa adapts Carlo Goldoni’s play Il ventaglio. The available text does not provide the plot.
Zeus tries to take the place of Amphitryon as he returns from war, hoping to approach Amphitryon’s wife Alcmene. Hera frustrates the plan by delaying the couple until morning, when Alcmene meets her real husband.
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.
In eighteenth-century Venice, four curmudgeonly husbands try to keep their wives and daughters under control. The women decide to defy them by arranging for Lucieta to meet Filipeto, her intended husband, before their arranged marriage.
In a small Venetian square in the mid-eighteenth century, visiting Neapolitan gentleman Astolfi flirts with several women, provoking jealousy among their suitors. Haberdasher Anzoleto and Luçieta plan to marry, though their relationship is marked by quarrels. Gasparina’s uncle Fabrizio discovers that Astolfi is bankrupt and that he himself is a lottery winner; Astolfi asks to marry Gasparina. As Anzoleto and Luçieta’s neighbors quarrel, Astolfi invites them all to dinner and announces that he and Gasparina will marry and leave Venice.
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.
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari’s three-act commedia lirica adapts Lope de Vega’s 1613 play La dama boba. The available text does not provide the plot.
Widow Rosaura is courted by four suitors from different countries. She disguises herself to test their fidelity, discovers that three are willing to deceive her, and chooses the one who resists her advances; he accepts her for love and their shared nationality.
In eighteenth-century Venice, two wives investigate what their husbands do at their club.
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.
Poet Sly drinks in a London tavern and later wakes in a palace, where he is told that he is its owner and has been in a coma for ten years. Believing the story, he falls in love with Dolly. When Sly learns the truth, he slashes his wrists; only then does he discover that Dolly loves him.