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The goldsmith Cardillac is secretly murdering the owners of the jewels he has made so he can reclaim his work. When the officer courting Cardillac’s daughter survives an attack, the gold merchant exposes the crimes; Cardillac confesses and is lynched by the crowd, reaching for a jewel even as he dies.
Toymaker Cornelius plans to animate a doll as a bride for his son, while mistreating his nephew Miller. Miller and his fiancée Bertha use the doll and a disguise to frighten Cornelius, recover Miller’s inheritance, and escape.
King Fridolin plans a financially advantageous marriage, but the sorceress Coloquinte and the magical vegetable monarch King Carotte take over his court. With Robin-Luron and other companions, Fridolin travels to Pompeii to find a magic ring that can defeat Carotte. After the ring changes hands and Fridolin is sent to the land of insects, a popular uprising restores him to the throne; Carotte is carried off and Fridolin marries Rosée du soir.
In a Nuremberg tavern, the poet Hoffmann tells of three loves. In Paris, he falls for Olympia, an automaton, and discovers the deception when she is destroyed. In Munich, he reunites with Antonia, whose singing under the influence of Dr. Miracle leads to her death. In Venice, Hoffmann loves Giulietta, who steals his reflection at the request of Dapertutto. Returning to the tavern, Hoffmann declares that the three women represent facets of the singer Stella. Nicklausse reveals herself as the Muse and claims Hoffmann for poetry; Stella leaves with Lindorf.
E. T. A. Hoffmann’s three-act German Singspiel adapts a play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca through August Wilhelm Schlegel’s translation. Its plot turns on romantic confusions caused by disguises and misunderstandings of signs of love.
A German-language opera by Walter Braunfels, adapted from E. T. A. Hoffmann’s novella of the same name. Its roles include the actor Claudio and young seamstress Giazinta.
In Balanchine’s staging, Clara/Marie and the Nutcracker Prince are children, and the Journey Through the Snow is replaced by a scene in which Clara’s bed moves across the stage as the Nutcracker transforms into the Prince.
Christensen’s production was the first complete staging of The Nutcracker in the United States and used the ballet’s original plot.
A three-act German opera with spoken dialogue, based on Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué’s 1811 story Undine.
The goldsmith Cardillac is secretly murdering the owners of the jewels he has made so he can reclaim his work. When the officer courting Cardillac’s daughter survives an attack, the gold merchant exposes the crimes; Cardillac confesses and is lynched by the crowd, reaching for a jewel even as he dies.
Toymaker Cornelius plans to animate a doll as a bride for his son, while mistreating his nephew Miller. Miller and his fiancée Bertha use the doll and a disguise to frighten Cornelius, recover Miller’s inheritance, and escape.
King Fridolin plans a financially advantageous marriage, but the sorceress Coloquinte and the magical vegetable monarch King Carotte take over his court. With Robin-Luron and other companions, Fridolin travels to Pompeii to find a magic ring that can defeat Carotte. After the ring changes hands and Fridolin is sent to the land of insects, a popular uprising restores him to the throne; Carotte is carried off and Fridolin marries Rosée du soir.
In a Nuremberg tavern, the poet Hoffmann tells of three loves. In Paris, he falls for Olympia, an automaton, and discovers the deception when she is destroyed. In Munich, he reunites with Antonia, whose singing under the influence of Dr. Miracle leads to her death. In Venice, Hoffmann loves Giulietta, who steals his reflection at the request of Dapertutto. Returning to the tavern, Hoffmann declares that the three women represent facets of the singer Stella. Nicklausse reveals herself as the Muse and claims Hoffmann for poetry; Stella leaves with Lindorf.
E. T. A. Hoffmann’s three-act German Singspiel adapts a play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca through August Wilhelm Schlegel’s translation. Its plot turns on romantic confusions caused by disguises and misunderstandings of signs of love.
A German-language opera by Walter Braunfels, adapted from E. T. A. Hoffmann’s novella of the same name. Its roles include the actor Claudio and young seamstress Giazinta.
In Balanchine’s staging, Clara/Marie and the Nutcracker Prince are children, and the Journey Through the Snow is replaced by a scene in which Clara’s bed moves across the stage as the Nutcracker transforms into the Prince.
Christensen’s production was the first complete staging of The Nutcracker in the United States and used the ballet’s original plot.
A three-act German opera with spoken dialogue, based on Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué’s 1811 story Undine.