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At Brisket Place, naïve army captain Llewellyn Prime is manipulated into proposing to Blandina Wigmore, who accepts. Mrs. Jasper, one of the original plotters, repents and frees Prime from the engagement before accepting his proposal; Blandina meanwhile accepts Percy Trafford and later regrets it.
Guy Domville, a tutor planning to enter the priesthood, considers marrying to preserve his family line, but ultimately helps the people he loves marry and returns to his vocation.
In this contemporary reworking of Washington Square, insecure Claudine is courted by Henry, an indebted avant-garde theatre director, while her wealthy mother Eve grooms her to lead a philanthropic foundation. Eve threatens to disinherit Claudine if she marries Henry; after he leaves, Claudine is heartbroken but more self-confident.
A widowed Englishman opposes the love between his son Norman and ward Mildred, sending Norman to India. His former mistress Eleanor arrives with Claude, who is secretly Sir Frederick's illegitimate son. After complications, Norman and Mildred reunite, Claude learns his parentage, and Eleanor refuses Sir Frederick's marriage offer.
At Bedford’s country house, Sir Ralph Damant and the supposedly dead artist Mark Bernal both claim the inheritance. Mark produces an album of sketches that complicates the succession. Mark and Grace Jesmond marry, as do Teddy Ashdown and Maud Vincent; Sir Ralph rejects Lady Basset’s fortune hunting and gives the inheritance to Mark.
At Lake Como, a Lodger who studies composer Jeffrey Aspern rents rooms from former prima donna Juliana Bordereau and her niece Tina, hoping to find Aspern’s papers and a lost Medea opera score. The story shifts between 1885, as the Lodger investigates, and 1835, when the audience sees Aspern’s relationship with the younger soprano Sonia and his death. Juliana dies after the Lodger learns she has kept the papers. Tina offers him the score if he will marry her; he initially refuses, then changes his mind, but Tina says it is too late. She burns the score page by page.
At Mr. Bonsor’s villa, Nina (appearing as Mrs. Freshville) returns after her Paris relationship with Paul Doubleday. Paul has been isolated by his stepmother and co-guardian as a suspected reprobate. Blanche Amber objects to his treatment; she accepts his proposal, freeing him from isolation, while Captain Chanter pursues Mrs. Doubleday. Paul proves mature and responsible.
A three-act chamber opera based on the Greek myth of Ariadne and adapted from a story by Henry James. The entry does not describe the operatic plot.
A two-act, six-scene English-language opera based on Henry James’s novel The Wings of the Dove.
At Brisket Place, naïve army captain Llewellyn Prime is manipulated into proposing to Blandina Wigmore, who accepts. Mrs. Jasper, one of the original plotters, repents and frees Prime from the engagement before accepting his proposal; Blandina meanwhile accepts Percy Trafford and later regrets it.
Guy Domville, a tutor planning to enter the priesthood, considers marrying to preserve his family line, but ultimately helps the people he loves marry and returns to his vocation.
In this contemporary reworking of Washington Square, insecure Claudine is courted by Henry, an indebted avant-garde theatre director, while her wealthy mother Eve grooms her to lead a philanthropic foundation. Eve threatens to disinherit Claudine if she marries Henry; after he leaves, Claudine is heartbroken but more self-confident.
A widowed Englishman opposes the love between his son Norman and ward Mildred, sending Norman to India. His former mistress Eleanor arrives with Claude, who is secretly Sir Frederick's illegitimate son. After complications, Norman and Mildred reunite, Claude learns his parentage, and Eleanor refuses Sir Frederick's marriage offer.
At Bedford’s country house, Sir Ralph Damant and the supposedly dead artist Mark Bernal both claim the inheritance. Mark produces an album of sketches that complicates the succession. Mark and Grace Jesmond marry, as do Teddy Ashdown and Maud Vincent; Sir Ralph rejects Lady Basset’s fortune hunting and gives the inheritance to Mark.
At Lake Como, a Lodger who studies composer Jeffrey Aspern rents rooms from former prima donna Juliana Bordereau and her niece Tina, hoping to find Aspern’s papers and a lost Medea opera score. The story shifts between 1885, as the Lodger investigates, and 1835, when the audience sees Aspern’s relationship with the younger soprano Sonia and his death. Juliana dies after the Lodger learns she has kept the papers. Tina offers him the score if he will marry her; he initially refuses, then changes his mind, but Tina says it is too late. She burns the score page by page.
At Mr. Bonsor’s villa, Nina (appearing as Mrs. Freshville) returns after her Paris relationship with Paul Doubleday. Paul has been isolated by his stepmother and co-guardian as a suspected reprobate. Blanche Amber objects to his treatment; she accepts his proposal, freeing him from isolation, while Captain Chanter pursues Mrs. Doubleday. Paul proves mature and responsible.
A three-act chamber opera based on the Greek myth of Ariadne and adapted from a story by Henry James. The entry does not describe the operatic plot.
A two-act, six-scene English-language opera based on Henry James’s novel The Wings of the Dove.