Fedra
Fedra falls in love with her stepson Ippolito, who rejects her. In anger she accuses him of rape; Teseo invokes Poseidon against his son, who dies in an accident, and when Teseo learns the truth he condemns Fedra.
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Fedra falls in love with her stepson Ippolito, who rejects her. In anger she accuses him of rape; Teseo invokes Poseidon against his son, who dies in an accident, and when Teseo learns the truth he condemns Fedra.
Francesca falls in love with her husband’s brother, dramatizing the medieval lovers’ story from Dante’s Inferno.
Sculptor Lucio Settala is torn between his wife Silvia and his model Gioconda, whose presence fuels his pursuit of absolute art. After Lucio’s suicide attempt, Gioconda tries to destroy his statue; Silvia saves it at the cost of her hands, and Lucio leaves his wife for Gioconda.
Amid the ruins of Mycenae, archaeologist Léonard, his sister Hebé, colleague Alexandre, and Alexandre’s wife Anne are caught in a web of lives and loves.
In an Abruzzese castle in the 1820s, Gigliola seeks vengeance for her mother Monica, whom her stepmother Angizia murdered before marrying Gigliola’s father, Tibaldo. As Gigliola prepares to kill Angizia and then herself, Tibaldo kills Angizia first; Gigliola nevertheless dies from a serpent’s bite, and the family’s decay culminates in her father’s death as well.
At a wedding in Lama dei Peligni, villagers accuse Mila of witchcraft and demand her death. Aligi, who loves her, breaks off his arranged marriage and leaves with her for a cave. He travels to Rome to appeal to the Pope. While Aligi is away, the villagers burn Mila alive.
Fedra falls in love with her stepson Ippolito, who rejects her. In anger she accuses him of rape; Teseo invokes Poseidon against his son, who dies in an accident, and when Teseo learns the truth he condemns Fedra.
Francesca falls in love with her husband’s brother, dramatizing the medieval lovers’ story from Dante’s Inferno.
Sculptor Lucio Settala is torn between his wife Silvia and his model Gioconda, whose presence fuels his pursuit of absolute art. After Lucio’s suicide attempt, Gioconda tries to destroy his statue; Silvia saves it at the cost of her hands, and Lucio leaves his wife for Gioconda.
Amid the ruins of Mycenae, archaeologist Léonard, his sister Hebé, colleague Alexandre, and Alexandre’s wife Anne are caught in a web of lives and loves.
In an Abruzzese castle in the 1820s, Gigliola seeks vengeance for her mother Monica, whom her stepmother Angizia murdered before marrying Gigliola’s father, Tibaldo. As Gigliola prepares to kill Angizia and then herself, Tibaldo kills Angizia first; Gigliola nevertheless dies from a serpent’s bite, and the family’s decay culminates in her father’s death as well.
At a wedding in Lama dei Peligni, villagers accuse Mila of witchcraft and demand her death. Aligi, who loves her, breaks off his arranged marriage and leaves with her for a cave. He travels to Rome to appeal to the Pope. While Aligi is away, the villagers burn Mila alive.
An opera in a prologue and three episodes adapted from Gabriele D’Annunzio’s play of the same title.
In five tableaux, Sebastian’s faith and defiance of pagan worship bring him before the emperor and into martyrdom. He refuses the imperial crown and lyre, is shot with arrows, and is finally received into heaven. Debussy’s incidental score accompanies D’Annunzio’s mystery play.
In the three-act version, Ugo d’Este and his stepmother Parisina become lovers. When Marquis Nicolò d’Este discovers them, he condemns both to be beheaded.
Mila, a young woman outcast from her community, loves a shepherd who is being married off to someone he does not love. D'Annunzio tells their tragedy in verse shaped by Abruzzo dialect, proverbs and traditional rhymes.