Clavigo
A five-act tragedy inspired by José Clavijo y Fajardo's marriage offer to Pierre Beaumarchais's sister.
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A five-act tragedy inspired by José Clavijo y Fajardo's marriage offer to Pierre Beaumarchais's sister.
A two-act opera by Giselher Klebe and Lore Klebe based on Goethe’s symbolic fairy tale Das Märchen.
A barber disguises himself as a revolutionary general to trick a wealthy peasant into giving him a meal. The imposture triggers suspicion of Jacobin conspiracy before a nobleman exposes him and restores order.
The Empress, daughter of the spirit king Keikobad, has no shadow. Unless she obtains one, her father will reclaim her and her husband, the Emperor, will turn to stone. She and her Nurse descend to the human world and try to obtain the Dyer’s Wife’s shadow. The Empress refuses to take it at the cost of the other woman’s future happiness. She receives a shadow of her own, the Emperor is restored, and the Dyer and his Wife reunite.
The source describes the project as based on Goethe’s play Die Laune des Verliebten, but it provides no plot for Wagner’s abandoned opera project.
Count Egmont resists the Duke of Alba's despotic rule and refuses to flee, trusting in justice and liberty. Imprisoned and abandoned by his people, he is sentenced to death; Klärchen's efforts fail, and she dies by suicide before Egmont's martyrdom becomes a call to fight oppression.
A five-act tragedy inspired by José Clavijo y Fajardo's marriage offer to Pierre Beaumarchais's sister.
A two-act opera by Giselher Klebe and Lore Klebe based on Goethe’s symbolic fairy tale Das Märchen.
A barber disguises himself as a revolutionary general to trick a wealthy peasant into giving him a meal. The imposture triggers suspicion of Jacobin conspiracy before a nobleman exposes him and restores order.
The Empress, daughter of the spirit king Keikobad, has no shadow. Unless she obtains one, her father will reclaim her and her husband, the Emperor, will turn to stone. She and her Nurse descend to the human world and try to obtain the Dyer’s Wife’s shadow. The Empress refuses to take it at the cost of the other woman’s future happiness. She receives a shadow of her own, the Emperor is restored, and the Dyer and his Wife reunite.
The source describes the project as based on Goethe’s play Die Laune des Verliebten, but it provides no plot for Wagner’s abandoned opera project.
Count Egmont resists the Duke of Alba's despotic rule and refuses to flee, trusting in justice and liberty. Imprisoned and abandoned by his people, he is sentenced to death; Klärchen's efforts fail, and she dies by suicide before Egmont's martyrdom becomes a call to fight oppression.
Alberto loves his friend Armando but believes their love can only be possible if he becomes a woman. He bargains with the devil for transformation, while the devil tries to persuade him that they need not submit to the era's restrictive ideas of masculinity and morality.
Elmire believes that her coldness has driven away Erwin, her low-born suitor. Her mentor Bernardo sends her to meet an old hermit in a secluded valley. In the second act Bernardo disguises Erwin as the hermit, and Elmire confesses that she feigned indifference to satisfy social propriety. Convinced of her love, Erwin reveals himself, and the lovers reunite.
Elmire fears that her coldness drove Erwin away. Her tutor Bernardo persuades her to meet an old hermit in a secluded valley; the hermit is Erwin in disguise.
In Part One, the scholar Faust makes a wager with Mephistopheles and pursues Gretchen, whose family is destroyed and who is imprisoned after killing her child. In Part Two, Faust undertakes new adventures across social, political and classical worlds, ultimately striving toward redemption.
An aging scholar, Faust despairs of the life he has spent in study and considers suicide. Méphistophélès appears and offers him youth and worldly pleasures in exchange for his soul. Faust accepts and falls in love with Marguerite, whom he seduces and abandons. Her brother Valentin confronts Faust and is killed. Marguerite gives birth to Faust’s child, then kills the child and is imprisoned. Faust enters the prison with Méphistophélès and urges her to escape, but she entrusts herself to God and dies. Her soul rises to heaven, while an archangel bars Méphistophélès.
A three-act romantic opera by Meyer Lutz and Henri Drayton based on Goethe’s Faust legend.
Faust bargains with Méphistophélès for a single encounter with Helen of Troy. He demands that the demon summon Hélène, who rejects him to avoid causing more deaths in her name. Faust persists and falls in love, but Méphistophélès warns that she must return to the grave or Faust will be damned. When Paris’s ghost claims her, Faust fights him and is struck down.
The Lord wagers that Mephistopheles cannot lead the striving scholar Faust astray. Mephistopheles offers Faust worldly pleasures in exchange for his soul if Faust ever wishes a moment to last. Faust's pursuit of Gretchen brings seduction, her mother's death through a sleeping potion, her brother's death, and Gretchen's imprisonment after infanticide. Faust tries to free her, but she refuses to flee; a heavenly voice announces her salvation.
In this dramatic continuation, Faust encounters Helen of Troy, seeks power over nature and the sea, and later dies after developing reclaimed land. The closing scenes follow his soul’s ascent through the intercession of heavenly figures.
Bored with life, Fausto is about to drink poison when church bells revive his faith. He meets Margarita and falls in love; after she leaves, he summons Mefistofele, who promises to make him young and win her for him. Rejuvenated, Fausto courts Margarita, who comes to return his feelings and secretly invites him to her room. The entry does not summarize the final two acts.
Faustus, a monk disillusioned with isolation, seeks the pure woman Mephisto shows him. His love for Gretchen leads to her pregnancy and death; before dying, she forgives him and urges a life of faith, truth and charity.
Goethe’s freely adapted drama presents the historical Götz as a maverick and pillar of national integrity resisting a deceitful, over-refined society. He ultimately succumbs to the abstract demands of law and justice, dramatizing the individual’s submission to social authority.
Iphigenia, serving as Diana's priestess in Tauris, longs to return to Greece. When her brother Orestes and his companion Pylades are captured, she must choose between escaping with them through deception or appealing to King Thoas's humanity; she finally tells him the truth and wins their release.
Disillusioned with life, the scholar Faust accepts Méphistophélès’s offer of a journey and is shown Marguerite, with whom he falls in love. After seducing and abandoning her, he learns that she faces execution after accidentally killing her mother with a sleeping potion he supplied. Faust agrees to surrender his soul in exchange for her rescue, but Méphistophélès takes him to hell; Marguerite is saved and welcomed into heaven.
Daniel believes Bettly has accepted his love, but she reveals that friends forged her letter and rejects marriage. When her brother Max returns with soldiers, he conceals his identity and frightens Bettly into thinking she is at their mercy. Daniel offers himself to enlist in her defense; impressed by his courage, Bettly signs a marriage contract, and Max secretly signs too, ensuring their union.
An operatic adaptation of Alcott’s story of the March family growing up in New England after the American Civil War; the source page does not give the opera’s plot details.
In Germany, the wandering minstrel Lothario and student Wilhelm Meister rescue Mignon from a gypsy who threatens her. Wilhelm buys her freedom, and Mignon travels with him while falling in love. At a castle, she becomes jealous when Wilhelm favors the actress Philine, and Lothario sets fire to the conservatory after Mignon wishes it would burn. Wilhelm rescues her. In Italy, the castle’s history helps Mignon recover her memory: she realizes that Lothario is her father, and the three are reunited.
A five-scene scenic oratorio in which Prometheus, chained to a rock by Zeus, prophesies that a savior of mankind will appear after ten generations.
A four-act Singspiel by Philipp Christoph Kayser to Goethe’s libretto.
After eight years apart, Stella and Fernando reunite, but Fernando's abandoned wife Cecilia and their daughter Lucie arrive as well. The 1776 version ends with the three adults agreeing to live together; Goethe's later 1806 tragic revision ends with Fernando's suicide and Stella's death.
Eugenia, the Duke’s illegitimate daughter, is offered formal recognition at court in exchange for her father’s support against a rumored republican conspiracy. Political conspirators abduct her and force her toward exile; after failed attempts to secure protection, she accepts the Advocate’s proposal and chooses to remain in her homeland.
Johannes Thomasius faces trials on a path of spiritual initiation, while visions reveal his relationship with Maria across past lives.
Goethe’s verse drama portrays the sixteenth-century Italian poet and courtier Torquato Tasso and his descent into madness.
In Schiller's drama, Swiss peasants rebel against the Habsburg governor Gessler. Tell is forced to shoot an apple from his son's head, then escapes custody during a storm and later kills Gessler. The signal of Gessler's death launches a revolt; the people free Bertha and win Ulrich's support. Tell refuses to praise the assassin John, but helps him escape on condition that he atone.