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At the rural wedding of Gamace and Chitteria in seventeenth-century Spain, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza arrive and become involved in the dances and verbal intrigues as the feast is prepared. The one-act work combines comic opera with ballet.
Don Quixote and Sancho take part in the wedding of Comacho and Quiteria, in a comic one-act serenata based on an episode from Cervantes’s novel. Telemann’s score contrasts elevated operatic style for the noble figures with folk-inspired music for the peasants.
A sung-through comic ballet/opera based on the Don Quixote episode in which a Duke and Duchess devise an elaborate ruse to fool Don Quixote.
A sung-through comic ballet based on an episode of Don Quixote in which a Duke and Duchess devise an elaborate ruse to fool the knight.
A one-act grotesque musical scene featuring Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, devised as a benefit vehicle for the performers Hervé and Desiré. It is based on Cervantes’s novel; the source gives no plot summary.
In a Barcelona marketplace, Kitri meets her lover Basilio, but her father Lorenzo accepts a proposal from Gamache. The lovers flee; Don Quixote and Sancho pursue them through gypsy encampments, a puppet theatre, windmills, and Don Quixote's dream of Dulcinea. When Basilio feigns suicide to avoid the unwanted marriage, Lorenzo relents and the lovers wed. In the 1869 version, Don Quixote later loses a duel to the Knight of the Silver Moon and sets out for home with Sancho.
At the rural wedding of Gamace and Chitteria in seventeenth-century Spain, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza arrive and become involved in the dances and verbal intrigues as the feast is prepared. The one-act work combines comic opera with ballet.
Don Quixote and Sancho take part in the wedding of Comacho and Quiteria, in a comic one-act serenata based on an episode from Cervantes’s novel. Telemann’s score contrasts elevated operatic style for the noble figures with folk-inspired music for the peasants.
A sung-through comic ballet/opera based on the Don Quixote episode in which a Duke and Duchess devise an elaborate ruse to fool Don Quixote.
A sung-through comic ballet based on an episode of Don Quixote in which a Duke and Duchess devise an elaborate ruse to fool the knight.
A one-act grotesque musical scene featuring Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, devised as a benefit vehicle for the performers Hervé and Desiré. It is based on Cervantes’s novel; the source gives no plot summary.
In a Barcelona marketplace, Kitri meets her lover Basilio, but her father Lorenzo accepts a proposal from Gamache. The lovers flee; Don Quixote and Sancho pursue them through gypsy encampments, a puppet theatre, windmills, and Don Quixote's dream of Dulcinea. When Basilio feigns suicide to avoid the unwanted marriage, Lorenzo relents and the lovers wed. In the 1869 version, Don Quixote later loses a duel to the Knight of the Silver Moon and sets out for home with Sancho.
A German-language opera in three acts by Wilhelm Kienzl, adapting Cervantes’s novel. Its characters include Alonzo Quixano, called Don Quixote, his niece Mercedes and the peasant Sancho Pansa.
Master Peter announces a puppet play about Melisendra, Charlemagne’s daughter, held captive in Zaragoza. The Boy narrates as the puppets perform the story: Don Gayferos rides to rescue her, and the two escape together. Don Quixote objects to details of the staging, then becomes convinced the puppets are real when the Moors pursue the lovers. He jumps up and destroys the puppet theater to defend them, leaving Master Peter in despair.
Curious Marchese Calandrano, betrothed to Clorinda, asks Count Ripaverde to test her fidelity. Ripaverde and Clorinda fall in love; Aurelio consoles Calandrano’s niece Emilia and they fall in love, as do maid Serpina and steward Prospero. Three couples celebrate together, while Calandrano is left without a fiancée.
After Eleonora’s infidelity drives Cardenio to madness and exile on a Caribbean island, she is shipwrecked there and tries to reconcile with him. When Cardenio again mistakes her intentions and attempts suicide, his brother rescues him; seeing Eleonora ready to die rather than harm him, he forgives her and they reunite.
While Pancracio is away, his wife Leonarda welcomes a penniless student and two lovers for a party; when her husband returns unexpectedly, the quick-witted student uses stories and wordplay to help conceal the gathering.
Penniless poet Roland hides from his creditors and wins entry to Sarmiento’s home by promising to silence the wealthy man’s talkative wife, Béatrix. His endless chatter overwhelms her, while he courts her niece Inès; a ruse with love letters makes Sarmiento jealous, pays Roland’s debts and wins approval for the marriage.
A one-act French-language opera by François-André Danican Philidor with a libretto by Antoine-Alexandre-Henri Poinsinet based on Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote. No plot description is available in the reviewed text.
A grand ballet in two acts and five scenes with a prologue, based on Miguel de Cervantes’s novella La gitanilla.
The fugitive Thaddeus joins a band of gypsies and saves the infant Arline, daughter of Count Arnheim, from a deer. Twelve years later, Arline is arrested after the Gypsy Queen frames her for theft, but Arnheim recognizes her by her scar. Thaddeus wins the Count’s blessing to marry her; the jealous Queen dies in a struggle with Devilshoof.
An old miser keeps his fiancée behind a locked door because he fears she will be unfaithful. The opera centers on Mungo, the household servant, whose comic scenes include songs and spoken dialogue. The source describes the original Mungo as a racist caricature, performed in blackface; Ira Aldridge later transformed the role into a serious portrayal and added an abolitionist address to the audience.
Cervantes's four-act tragedy depicts the Roman siege of Numantia: after peace is rejected and famine destroys hope, the Numantian community chooses death over enslavement, ending with the last youth's suicide and the Roman general's recognition of Numantia's symbolic victory.