Anna Karenina
A two-act opera with prologue and epilogue based on Leo Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina.
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A two-act opera with prologue and epilogue based on Leo Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina.
Iain Hamilton’s three-act opera adapts Leo Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina.
Otakar Ostrčil’s three-act Czech opera adapts Leo Tolstoy’s short story Tale of Ivan the Jester.
Katyusha Maslova is seduced by Dmitri Nekhlyudov and dismissed from his aunts’ estate; after her child dies, she becomes a prostitute. She is implicated in a merchant’s murder and put on trial. Nekhlyudov later seeks her forgiveness in prison, and she joins political prisoners traveling to Siberia, where she marries another prisoner after receiving a pardon.
Prince Dimitri seduces Katiusha before leaving for war, then abandons her. Pregnant and expelled, she later sees him with another woman, falls into hardship and is wrongly convicted of murder. Dimitri offers to marry her, but she refuses. On the way to Siberia, Katiusha chooses to marry the political prisoner Simonson and devote herself to helping other prisoners, though she still loves Dimitri.
An anti-alcohol morality play based on Tolstoy's short story Promoting a Devil, subtitled How the Imp Earned a Crust.
Tolstoy satirizes the landed aristocracy’s persistence in unenlightened attitudes toward Russian peasants. The first staged version reflected conditions at Yasnaya Polyana and neighboring estates, using real local gentry names before these were replaced in later text.
A man recounts the marriage that drove him into obsessive jealousy. His account of intimacy, suspicion, and a musical performance exposes the destructive beliefs beneath his claim to have been betrayed.
An unfinished, autobiographical drama that reflects Leo Tolstoy’s personal dilemma through the lens of family life.
Fedor Protasov leaves his wife and life, believing his wife loves another man. When she remarries, he returns to testify that she thought him dead; after a court threatens her with exile or separation, he shoots himself, and she declares that she always loved him.
Peasant farmhand Nikita seduces an orphan girl, abandons her, and marries Anisya after she poisons her husband. He then impregnates Anisya's daughter; under pressure from his wife and mother he murders the newborn, but confesses to the police on the day of the daughter's wedding.
Based on Leo Tolstoy’s novel Resurrection.
A stage adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novel, collaboratively adapted by Alfred Neumann, Erwin Piscator and Guntram Prüfer.
Natasha Rostova and Prince Andrei Bolkonsky are drawn together, but while Andrei is away, Natasha is tempted by Anatole Kuragin, who is already married. Her attempted elopement is stopped, and Pierre Bezukhov helps her through the crisis. Napoleon’s invasion brings Andrei, Pierre, and their companions into the war. The Russian army retreats and Moscow burns; Andrei dies after reuniting with Natasha. During the French retreat, Pierre and other prisoners are rescued by partisans, and Kutuzov celebrates the Russian victory.
A two-act opera with prologue and epilogue based on Leo Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina.
Iain Hamilton’s three-act opera adapts Leo Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina.
Otakar Ostrčil’s three-act Czech opera adapts Leo Tolstoy’s short story Tale of Ivan the Jester.
Katyusha Maslova is seduced by Dmitri Nekhlyudov and dismissed from his aunts’ estate; after her child dies, she becomes a prostitute. She is implicated in a merchant’s murder and put on trial. Nekhlyudov later seeks her forgiveness in prison, and she joins political prisoners traveling to Siberia, where she marries another prisoner after receiving a pardon.
Prince Dimitri seduces Katiusha before leaving for war, then abandons her. Pregnant and expelled, she later sees him with another woman, falls into hardship and is wrongly convicted of murder. Dimitri offers to marry her, but she refuses. On the way to Siberia, Katiusha chooses to marry the political prisoner Simonson and devote herself to helping other prisoners, though she still loves Dimitri.
An anti-alcohol morality play based on Tolstoy's short story Promoting a Devil, subtitled How the Imp Earned a Crust.
Tolstoy satirizes the landed aristocracy’s persistence in unenlightened attitudes toward Russian peasants. The first staged version reflected conditions at Yasnaya Polyana and neighboring estates, using real local gentry names before these were replaced in later text.
A man recounts the marriage that drove him into obsessive jealousy. His account of intimacy, suspicion, and a musical performance exposes the destructive beliefs beneath his claim to have been betrayed.
An unfinished, autobiographical drama that reflects Leo Tolstoy’s personal dilemma through the lens of family life.
Fedor Protasov leaves his wife and life, believing his wife loves another man. When she remarries, he returns to testify that she thought him dead; after a court threatens her with exile or separation, he shoots himself, and she declares that she always loved him.
Peasant farmhand Nikita seduces an orphan girl, abandons her, and marries Anisya after she poisons her husband. He then impregnates Anisya's daughter; under pressure from his wife and mother he murders the newborn, but confesses to the police on the day of the daughter's wedding.
Based on Leo Tolstoy’s novel Resurrection.
A stage adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novel, collaboratively adapted by Alfred Neumann, Erwin Piscator and Guntram Prüfer.
Natasha Rostova and Prince Andrei Bolkonsky are drawn together, but while Andrei is away, Natasha is tempted by Anatole Kuragin, who is already married. Her attempted elopement is stopped, and Pierre Bezukhov helps her through the crisis. Napoleon’s invasion brings Andrei, Pierre, and their companions into the war. The Russian army retreats and Moscow burns; Andrei dies after reuniting with Natasha. During the French retreat, Pierre and other prisoners are rescued by partisans, and Kutuzov celebrates the Russian victory.