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The demon Belfagor tests whether marriage is hell by marrying Candida in disguise as a wealthy nobleman. Candida escapes with her lover Baldo, but Belfagor sows doubt between them until a plea to the Madonna and miraculous bells restore their trust.
The opera is based on Charles Perrault’s Sleeping Beauty and features a princess, prince, king, queen, fairies, and other fairy-tale characters.
When the Faun throws Enrico’s church bell into a lake, the bell maker despairs. Elf Rautendelein enters the human world and restores his strength. They fall in love, and Enrico abandons his wife Magda, who kills herself by jumping into the lake. Hearing the bell ring underwater, Enrico rejects Rautendelein. She becomes Ondino’s wife; later, as Enrico is dying, she visits him once more and kisses him.
Silvana, daughter of a woman accused of witchcraft, loves her stepson Donello. After her husband Basilio dies, his mother accuses Silvana of causing his death by sorcery. Unable to swear an oath of innocence, Silvana is condemned as a witch.
In Rome in 509 BC, Sextus Tarquinius, Brutus and Collatinus discuss their wives’ fidelity. Tarquinius becomes infatuated with Collatinus’s wife Lucrezia, enters her home and rapes her. The following day she asks Collatinus to avenge her and takes her life. Brutus leads a rebellion that overthrows the monarchy.
Mary, a prostitute, feels an overwhelming desire to travel to Jerusalem. There she repents her sins, and an angel instructs her to go to the desert and live in prayer. She remains there until old age. Saint Zosimas finds her as she is dying and, with a lion’s help, digs her grave.
During the French Revolution, Marie de Lanjallay and her husband Maurice are separated when he flees to Brittany. Imprisoned with Clorivière, who loves her, Marie is spared after Robespierre’s fall. Years later she lives in poverty with Clorivière and a child; Maurice returns, and the truth about Marie’s assault and Clorivière’s guilt emerges in court, where Clorivière takes his own life.
Set in Bologna in the second half of the 13th century, the opera centers on Enzo, King of Sardinia, captured by Bologna’s army at the Battle of Fossalta and held in the palace later named Palazzo Re Enzo. The city’s women fall in love with him and wish to free him, creating conflict with their husbands.
In Babylon, returned warrior Merôdach attracts Queen Semirâma, who is involved with Falâsar. Falâsar reveals that Merôdach is Semirâma’s exiled son Ninya, but she refuses to believe him. On the eve of their wedding, Susiâna tells Merôdach the truth. He attempts to kill Falâsar but in the darkness kills his own mother.
The demon Belfagor tests whether marriage is hell by marrying Candida in disguise as a wealthy nobleman. Candida escapes with her lover Baldo, but Belfagor sows doubt between them until a plea to the Madonna and miraculous bells restore their trust.
The opera is based on Charles Perrault’s Sleeping Beauty and features a princess, prince, king, queen, fairies, and other fairy-tale characters.
When the Faun throws Enrico’s church bell into a lake, the bell maker despairs. Elf Rautendelein enters the human world and restores his strength. They fall in love, and Enrico abandons his wife Magda, who kills herself by jumping into the lake. Hearing the bell ring underwater, Enrico rejects Rautendelein. She becomes Ondino’s wife; later, as Enrico is dying, she visits him once more and kisses him.
Silvana, daughter of a woman accused of witchcraft, loves her stepson Donello. After her husband Basilio dies, his mother accuses Silvana of causing his death by sorcery. Unable to swear an oath of innocence, Silvana is condemned as a witch.
In Rome in 509 BC, Sextus Tarquinius, Brutus and Collatinus discuss their wives’ fidelity. Tarquinius becomes infatuated with Collatinus’s wife Lucrezia, enters her home and rapes her. The following day she asks Collatinus to avenge her and takes her life. Brutus leads a rebellion that overthrows the monarchy.
Mary, a prostitute, feels an overwhelming desire to travel to Jerusalem. There she repents her sins, and an angel instructs her to go to the desert and live in prayer. She remains there until old age. Saint Zosimas finds her as she is dying and, with a lion’s help, digs her grave.
During the French Revolution, Marie de Lanjallay and her husband Maurice are separated when he flees to Brittany. Imprisoned with Clorivière, who loves her, Marie is spared after Robespierre’s fall. Years later she lives in poverty with Clorivière and a child; Maurice returns, and the truth about Marie’s assault and Clorivière’s guilt emerges in court, where Clorivière takes his own life.
Set in Bologna in the second half of the 13th century, the opera centers on Enzo, King of Sardinia, captured by Bologna’s army at the Battle of Fossalta and held in the palace later named Palazzo Re Enzo. The city’s women fall in love with him and wish to free him, creating conflict with their husbands.
In Babylon, returned warrior Merôdach attracts Queen Semirâma, who is involved with Falâsar. Falâsar reveals that Merôdach is Semirâma’s exiled son Ninya, but she refuses to believe him. On the eve of their wedding, Susiâna tells Merôdach the truth. He attempts to kill Falâsar but in the darkness kills his own mother.