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At the height of his power, Bohemian king Ottokar alienates allies through pride and betrayal, loses lands and the imperial crown, and turns to war against Rudolf of Habsburg. After his former wife’s death, Ottokar recognizes his failures but is killed in battle; Rudolf restores order and secures the Austrian and Styrian lands.
Reimann’s opera follows Franz Grillparzer’s play Medea, in which the title character is portrayed as a foreigner without protection who becomes the victim of powerful men and is expelled from society.
During the Olympic poetry contest, Saffo condemns the Leucadian Leap and angers Apollo’s priest Alcandro. With Alcandro’s encouragement, jealous Faone denounces her. Saffo befriends Climene to seek Alcandro’s help, but discovers Climene is to marry Faone; she disrupts the wedding and damages Apollo’s altar. At the cliff, an old man reveals Saffo is Alcandro’s lost daughter and Climene’s sister. Though reunited, she must honor her vow to Apollo and jumps, drowning in the sea.
Grillparzer’s tragedy reworks the tradition that the poet Sappho throws herself from a cliff after Phaon rejects her for her slave Melitta. In the play, Melitta loves neither Phaon nor Sappho and longs to return home, while Sappho’s poetic vocation conflicts with earthly happiness.
A three-part dramatic poem based on the Greek myths of Jason, the Argonauts, and Medea. The cycle consists of The Guest-friend, The Argonauts, and Medea.
A tragedy based on the love affair between King Alfonso VIII of Castile and Rahel la Fermosa, a Jewish woman.
At the height of his power, Bohemian king Ottokar alienates allies through pride and betrayal, loses lands and the imperial crown, and turns to war against Rudolf of Habsburg. After his former wife’s death, Ottokar recognizes his failures but is killed in battle; Rudolf restores order and secures the Austrian and Styrian lands.
Reimann’s opera follows Franz Grillparzer’s play Medea, in which the title character is portrayed as a foreigner without protection who becomes the victim of powerful men and is expelled from society.
During the Olympic poetry contest, Saffo condemns the Leucadian Leap and angers Apollo’s priest Alcandro. With Alcandro’s encouragement, jealous Faone denounces her. Saffo befriends Climene to seek Alcandro’s help, but discovers Climene is to marry Faone; she disrupts the wedding and damages Apollo’s altar. At the cliff, an old man reveals Saffo is Alcandro’s lost daughter and Climene’s sister. Though reunited, she must honor her vow to Apollo and jumps, drowning in the sea.
Grillparzer’s tragedy reworks the tradition that the poet Sappho throws herself from a cliff after Phaon rejects her for her slave Melitta. In the play, Melitta loves neither Phaon nor Sappho and longs to return home, while Sappho’s poetic vocation conflicts with earthly happiness.
A three-part dramatic poem based on the Greek myths of Jason, the Argonauts, and Medea. The cycle consists of The Guest-friend, The Argonauts, and Medea.
A tragedy based on the love affair between King Alfonso VIII of Castile and Rahel la Fermosa, a Jewish woman.