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In a seventeenth-century Paris tavern, a group of torturers trade stories. The mistress recognizes one man as her former lover, who abandoned her while she was pregnant. She realizes the young man he boasts of torturing to death was their son. She keeps her former lover for another drink, secretly poisons him and reveals the truth as he dies. The tavern door bursts open, and the son’s ghost arrives to claim the torturer’s soul.
During the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs, Tlascalan prince Xalca and Montezuma’s general Ramatzin compete for Azora’s hand. Xalca prevails, but Montezuma condemns the lovers to death. At dawn, as they gather at the sacrificial stone, Cortés and his priests arrive and set them free.
A one-act English-language opera adapted from Carlo Goldoni’s comedy The Mistress of the Inn.
Cleopatra’s maids discover that Mardion loves the lion hunter Meïamoun. When he swims into Cleopatra’s bath, she offers him one night with her in exchange for his life. Mardion kills herself after Meïamoun accepts. At a dawn banquet, Cleopatra offers Meïamoun gifts and escape, but he drinks poison as Antony’s arrival is announced. Cleopatra keeps her promise to remember him and welcomes Antony.
Persian princess Safié loves envoy Ahmed, who promises to send her a rose each week while away on a diplomatic mission. Zehu, a magician’s son, tries to force his affection on her and later sends her a poisoned bracelet. Safié dies as Ahmed’s first rose arrives.
In a seventeenth-century Paris tavern, a group of torturers trade stories. The mistress recognizes one man as her former lover, who abandoned her while she was pregnant. She realizes the young man he boasts of torturing to death was their son. She keeps her former lover for another drink, secretly poisons him and reveals the truth as he dies. The tavern door bursts open, and the son’s ghost arrives to claim the torturer’s soul.
During the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs, Tlascalan prince Xalca and Montezuma’s general Ramatzin compete for Azora’s hand. Xalca prevails, but Montezuma condemns the lovers to death. At dawn, as they gather at the sacrificial stone, Cortés and his priests arrive and set them free.
A one-act English-language opera adapted from Carlo Goldoni’s comedy The Mistress of the Inn.
Cleopatra’s maids discover that Mardion loves the lion hunter Meïamoun. When he swims into Cleopatra’s bath, she offers him one night with her in exchange for his life. Mardion kills herself after Meïamoun accepts. At a dawn banquet, Cleopatra offers Meïamoun gifts and escape, but he drinks poison as Antony’s arrival is announced. Cleopatra keeps her promise to remember him and welcomes Antony.
Persian princess Safié loves envoy Ahmed, who promises to send her a rose each week while away on a diplomatic mission. Zehu, a magician’s son, tries to force his affection on her and later sends her a poisoned bracelet. Safié dies as Ahmed’s first rose arrives.