Cefalo e Procri
A pseudo-classical morality fable based on the myth of Cephalus and Procris, set as a sequence of arias and recitatives.
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A pseudo-classical morality fable based on the myth of Cephalus and Procris, set as a sequence of arias and recitatives.
A satirical fairy-tale opera in which a king seeks to resign after a revolution. The queen falls in love with a revolutionary leader and is transformed into a tree.
In a hotel beside Lake Geneva, the Dictator orders a declaration of war as Maria and his wife Charlotte watch. Maria learns from a blinded officer that the Dictator's forces used poison gas and vows to kill his commander. She confronts the Dictator with a revolver, but when Charlotte takes the weapon to shoot him, Maria steps in front and is killed; the Dictator, horrified, flees.
A German-language opera that parodies Expressionism and psychoanalysis and includes jazz elements.
The composer Max leaves Anita to pursue an elusive musical sound, while jazz violinist Jonny steals a celebrated violin and places it in Anita’s banjo case. A chain of misunderstandings leads to Max’s arrest and Daniello’s accidental death; Jonny eventually helps Max escape and reunite with Anita as he leads a fantastical dance.
This stage work with music dramatizes Emperor Charles V’s life through a sequence of flashbacks on a split stage.
As the Trojan War approaches, Agamemnon plans a sacrifice, prompting Klytaemnestra to send their son Orest away with his nurse Anastasia. Iphigenia disappears during the attempted sacrifice. Years later, she appears to King Thoas, while Orest and Anastasia reach Athens.
Krenek’s opera condenses Oskar Kokoschka’s expressionist, psychological treatment of the Orpheus myth. The source identifies the principal roles but gives no further plot synopsis.
A farce set on the fictional South Seas island of Migo Migo, using a scenario inspired by Mozart’s Così fan tutte to satirize political sacred cows on both the left and right.
Boxing champion Ochsenschwanz catches his wife Evelyne kissing her dance instructor Gaston and locks her away. Gaston later disguises himself as a deliveryman and persuades the naïve Anna Maria to pose as a training dummy; Ochsenschwanz knocks her out, then finds himself cuffed to the machine when a minister arrives to announce his Olympic selection.
In a prologue set in 1925, Marius and Corinna are students. In a near future, Marius has become the dictator Tarquin, while Corinna is connected to a clandestine radio station. A tragedy eventually leads him back to God.
A chamber opera about Bannadonna, a bell-caster and architect, his daughter Una, and the workers around them. Krenek develops the mysterious events of Melville’s story into explicit dramatic action.
Edwin, who distrusts his girlfriend Gloria, decides to trust the next person who asks. Richard accepts a £1,000 check from Edwin as a supposed gambling debt and hurries back to Gloria, who insists he cover it. The check bounces, and Vivian finds Edwin about to jump from Waterloo Bridge. She persuades him to meet her the next day. Richard and Vivian discover Edwin and Gloria together, and a pawnbroker’s ticket, check, and introductions resolve the misunderstandings. Vivian plans to go to Paris with Edwin, while Gloria discovers jealousy.
A pseudo-classical morality fable based on the myth of Cephalus and Procris, set as a sequence of arias and recitatives.
A satirical fairy-tale opera in which a king seeks to resign after a revolution. The queen falls in love with a revolutionary leader and is transformed into a tree.
In a hotel beside Lake Geneva, the Dictator orders a declaration of war as Maria and his wife Charlotte watch. Maria learns from a blinded officer that the Dictator's forces used poison gas and vows to kill his commander. She confronts the Dictator with a revolver, but when Charlotte takes the weapon to shoot him, Maria steps in front and is killed; the Dictator, horrified, flees.
A German-language opera that parodies Expressionism and psychoanalysis and includes jazz elements.
The composer Max leaves Anita to pursue an elusive musical sound, while jazz violinist Jonny steals a celebrated violin and places it in Anita’s banjo case. A chain of misunderstandings leads to Max’s arrest and Daniello’s accidental death; Jonny eventually helps Max escape and reunite with Anita as he leads a fantastical dance.
This stage work with music dramatizes Emperor Charles V’s life through a sequence of flashbacks on a split stage.
As the Trojan War approaches, Agamemnon plans a sacrifice, prompting Klytaemnestra to send their son Orest away with his nurse Anastasia. Iphigenia disappears during the attempted sacrifice. Years later, she appears to King Thoas, while Orest and Anastasia reach Athens.
Krenek’s opera condenses Oskar Kokoschka’s expressionist, psychological treatment of the Orpheus myth. The source identifies the principal roles but gives no further plot synopsis.
A farce set on the fictional South Seas island of Migo Migo, using a scenario inspired by Mozart’s Così fan tutte to satirize political sacred cows on both the left and right.
Boxing champion Ochsenschwanz catches his wife Evelyne kissing her dance instructor Gaston and locks her away. Gaston later disguises himself as a deliveryman and persuades the naïve Anna Maria to pose as a training dummy; Ochsenschwanz knocks her out, then finds himself cuffed to the machine when a minister arrives to announce his Olympic selection.
In a prologue set in 1925, Marius and Corinna are students. In a near future, Marius has become the dictator Tarquin, while Corinna is connected to a clandestine radio station. A tragedy eventually leads him back to God.
A chamber opera about Bannadonna, a bell-caster and architect, his daughter Una, and the workers around them. Krenek develops the mysterious events of Melville’s story into explicit dramatic action.
Edwin, who distrusts his girlfriend Gloria, decides to trust the next person who asks. Richard accepts a £1,000 check from Edwin as a supposed gambling debt and hurries back to Gloria, who insists he cover it. The check bounces, and Vivian finds Edwin about to jump from Waterloo Bridge. She persuades him to meet her the next day. Richard and Vivian discover Edwin and Gloria together, and a pawnbroker’s ticket, check, and introductions resolve the misunderstandings. Vivian plans to go to Paris with Edwin, while Gloria discovers jealousy.