Gli dei a Tebe
Zeus tries to take the place of Amphitryon as he returns from war, hoping to approach Amphitryon’s wife Alcmene. Hera frustrates the plan by delaying the couple until morning, when Alcmene meets her real husband.
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Zeus tries to take the place of Amphitryon as he returns from war, hoping to approach Amphitryon’s wife Alcmene. Hera frustrates the plan by delaying the couple until morning, when Alcmene meets her real husband.
In a small Venetian square in the mid-eighteenth century, visiting Neapolitan gentleman Astolfi flirts with several women, provoking jealousy among their suitors. Haberdasher Anzoleto and Luçieta plan to marry, though their relationship is marked by quarrels. Gasparina’s uncle Fabrizio discovers that Astolfi is bankrupt and that he himself is a lottery winner; Astolfi asks to marry Gasparina. As Anzoleto and Luçieta’s neighbors quarrel, Astolfi invites them all to dinner and announces that he and Gasparina will marry and leave Venice.
The opera adapts Giovanni Ruffini’s 1855 nationalist novel Doctor Antonio.
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari’s three-act commedia lirica adapts Lope de Vega’s 1613 play La dama boba. The available text does not provide the plot.
Widow Rosaura is courted by four suitors from different countries. She disguises herself to test their fidelity, discovers that three are willing to deceive her, and chooses the one who resists her advances; he accepts her for love and their shared nationality.
Zeus tries to take the place of Amphitryon as he returns from war, hoping to approach Amphitryon’s wife Alcmene. Hera frustrates the plan by delaying the couple until morning, when Alcmene meets her real husband.
In a small Venetian square in the mid-eighteenth century, visiting Neapolitan gentleman Astolfi flirts with several women, provoking jealousy among their suitors. Haberdasher Anzoleto and Luçieta plan to marry, though their relationship is marked by quarrels. Gasparina’s uncle Fabrizio discovers that Astolfi is bankrupt and that he himself is a lottery winner; Astolfi asks to marry Gasparina. As Anzoleto and Luçieta’s neighbors quarrel, Astolfi invites them all to dinner and announces that he and Gasparina will marry and leave Venice.
The opera adapts Giovanni Ruffini’s 1855 nationalist novel Doctor Antonio.
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari’s three-act commedia lirica adapts Lope de Vega’s 1613 play La dama boba. The available text does not provide the plot.
Widow Rosaura is courted by four suitors from different countries. She disguises herself to test their fidelity, discovers that three are willing to deceive her, and chooses the one who resists her advances; he accepts her for love and their shared nationality.