Edipo Re
An Italian opera based on Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, with most of the original play’s choruses omitted.
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An Italian opera based on Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, with most of the original play’s choruses omitted.
When Buoso Donati dies, his relatives discover that his fortune has been left to a monastery. They enlist Gianni Schicchi, whose daughter Lauretta loves Rinuccio, to help them. Schicchi disguises himself as Buoso and dictates a new will, assigning the mule, house, and mills to himself while giving the relatives smaller bequests. The relatives cannot object in front of the notary without exposing their fraud. Schicchi evicts them from what is now his house, and Lauretta and Rinuccio can marry. He turns to the audience and asks them to forgive his deception.
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari’s three-act opera giocosa adapts Carlo Goldoni’s play Il ventaglio. The available text does not provide the plot.
During the French Reign of Terror, Prince Jean-Charles, disguised as the Little Marat, discovers that his mother, the Princess of Fleury, is imprisoned. He enlists Mariella and a carpenter to forge safe-conducts and arrange a boat for their escape. The Little Marat is shot while restraining the corrupt Orc, but the carpenter kills the Orc, and the Little Marat and Mariella escape to free his mother.
Rosalina is engaged to Colombello, but after seeing the King in his regal splendor she falls in love with him and breaks off the engagement. When she meets the King privately and sees him without his crown or clothes, her infatuation ends and she returns to Colombello.
Dutch orphan Lodoletta leaves her artist lover Flammen when he suggests they live together. Later, she follows him to Paris, but seeing his New Year’s Eve party, she collapses outside in the snow and dies, deliriously asking his forgiveness.
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.
Sister Angelica, who has lived in a convent for seven years, learns that her aunt, the Princess, has come to obtain her signature on a document transferring her inheritance to her sister Anna Viola. Angelica asks about the son she was forced to leave behind. The Princess tells her that he died of fever two years earlier. Angelica signs the document and collapses in grief. She makes and drinks poison, then realizes she has committed a mortal sin and fears she will be separated from her son forever. As she dies, she asks the Virgin Mary for mercy and sees a vision of the Virgin and her son coming to embrace her.
An Italian opera based on Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, with most of the original play’s choruses omitted.
When Buoso Donati dies, his relatives discover that his fortune has been left to a monastery. They enlist Gianni Schicchi, whose daughter Lauretta loves Rinuccio, to help them. Schicchi disguises himself as Buoso and dictates a new will, assigning the mule, house, and mills to himself while giving the relatives smaller bequests. The relatives cannot object in front of the notary without exposing their fraud. Schicchi evicts them from what is now his house, and Lauretta and Rinuccio can marry. He turns to the audience and asks them to forgive his deception.
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari’s three-act opera giocosa adapts Carlo Goldoni’s play Il ventaglio. The available text does not provide the plot.
During the French Reign of Terror, Prince Jean-Charles, disguised as the Little Marat, discovers that his mother, the Princess of Fleury, is imprisoned. He enlists Mariella and a carpenter to forge safe-conducts and arrange a boat for their escape. The Little Marat is shot while restraining the corrupt Orc, but the carpenter kills the Orc, and the Little Marat and Mariella escape to free his mother.
Rosalina is engaged to Colombello, but after seeing the King in his regal splendor she falls in love with him and breaks off the engagement. When she meets the King privately and sees him without his crown or clothes, her infatuation ends and she returns to Colombello.
Dutch orphan Lodoletta leaves her artist lover Flammen when he suggests they live together. Later, she follows him to Paris, but seeing his New Year’s Eve party, she collapses outside in the snow and dies, deliriously asking his forgiveness.
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.
Sister Angelica, who has lived in a convent for seven years, learns that her aunt, the Princess, has come to obtain her signature on a document transferring her inheritance to her sister Anna Viola. Angelica asks about the son she was forced to leave behind. The Princess tells her that he died of fever two years earlier. Angelica signs the document and collapses in grief. She makes and drinks poison, then realizes she has committed a mortal sin and fears she will be separated from her son forever. As she dies, she asks the Virgin Mary for mercy and sees a vision of the Virgin and her son coming to embrace her.