Anima allegra
A three-act Italian opera with a libretto partly based on the Quintero brothers’ play El genio alegre. The entry does not provide the plot of the operatic version.
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A three-act Italian opera with a libretto partly based on the Quintero brothers’ play El genio alegre. The entry does not provide the plot of the operatic version.
As stevedores unload Michele’s barge on the Seine, his wife Giorgetta grows close to Luigi, a stevedore. Michele refuses her request to bring wine to the workers and becomes increasingly estranged from her. Luigi asks to be dismissed but later admits that he and Giorgetta plan to meet after dark and escape together. Michele remembers their dead child and the days when he could shelter his wife beneath his cloak. Suspecting her infidelity, he lights his pipe; Luigi mistakes the glow for Giorgetta’s signal and returns to the barge. Michele confronts him, forces him to confess the affair, strangles him, and hides his body under his cloak. When Giorgetta returns, Michele reveals Luigi’s body.
At a party in Paris, courtesan Magda meets Ruggero, a young man visiting the city. Disguised as a shop girl, she meets him again at Bullier’s and falls in love. They live together on the Riviera, where Ruggero asks his mother for money and permission to marry. Magda learns that his family expects a virtuous bride and tells him about her past. Though Ruggero begs her to stay, she returns to her former protector Rambaldo and leaves him heartbroken.
In legendary Peking, Princess Turandot requires suitors to solve three riddles or be executed. Prince Calaf accepts the challenge, answers all three, and offers Turandot a chance to avoid marrying him: if she discovers his name before dawn, he will die. She orders the city to find it. Calaf’s companion Liù refuses to reveal his identity and dies under torture. Calaf then tells Turandot his name; at dawn she announces to the Emperor and people that his name is Love.
A three-act Italian opera with a libretto partly based on the Quintero brothers’ play El genio alegre. The entry does not provide the plot of the operatic version.
As stevedores unload Michele’s barge on the Seine, his wife Giorgetta grows close to Luigi, a stevedore. Michele refuses her request to bring wine to the workers and becomes increasingly estranged from her. Luigi asks to be dismissed but later admits that he and Giorgetta plan to meet after dark and escape together. Michele remembers their dead child and the days when he could shelter his wife beneath his cloak. Suspecting her infidelity, he lights his pipe; Luigi mistakes the glow for Giorgetta’s signal and returns to the barge. Michele confronts him, forces him to confess the affair, strangles him, and hides his body under his cloak. When Giorgetta returns, Michele reveals Luigi’s body.
At a party in Paris, courtesan Magda meets Ruggero, a young man visiting the city. Disguised as a shop girl, she meets him again at Bullier’s and falls in love. They live together on the Riviera, where Ruggero asks his mother for money and permission to marry. Magda learns that his family expects a virtuous bride and tells him about her past. Though Ruggero begs her to stay, she returns to her former protector Rambaldo and leaves him heartbroken.
In legendary Peking, Princess Turandot requires suitors to solve three riddles or be executed. Prince Calaf accepts the challenge, answers all three, and offers Turandot a chance to avoid marrying him: if she discovers his name before dawn, he will die. She orders the city to find it. Calaf’s companion Liù refuses to reveal his identity and dies under torture. Calaf then tells Turandot his name; at dawn she announces to the Emperor and people that his name is Love.