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Zeppelin captain Ulysses Eisenhardt lands on an island to obtain its fuel reserves, but the enchanting Gladys Thunderbolt ensnares his crew. The comic opera combines material from the Odyssey and Calderón’s El mayor encanto, amor.
Three-act Spanish opera by Juan Hidalgo de Polanco to a libretto by Pedro Calderón de la Barca.
After the former lover of Doña Mencía visits her, her husband Gutierre mistakes the circumstances and becomes convinced she has been unfaithful. He has her bled to death in the name of honor. The king then orders Gutierre to marry Leonor, whose reputation he had earlier damaged, prompting a warning that Gutierre may again act as judge of his honor.
Painter Juan Roca marries Serafina but feels unable to capture her soul in his art. After her former lover reappears and abducts her during a fire, Roca wrongly believes she was unfaithful and kills her, turning private revenge into public dishonor.
In a large corporation’s basement customer-service department, Segis Basil is kept isolated by his superstitious father, the company’s CEO. When his father gives him a day in charge, Segis’s misunderstanding of business language sends company stock plunging and he is returned to the basement. Meanwhile, employees compete for advancement and office conspiracies unfold.
The work begins with a prologue honoring Philip V. In the opera, Venus is rescued from a wild boar by Adonis, who says he has renounced love because of his incestuous birth. Venus pursues him, and Cupid shoots him with a golden arrow, making him desire her. Mars becomes jealous and plans revenge. After Mars arranges for a boar to attack Adonis, the animal mortally wounds him. Venus mourns his death, but Jupiter raises the lovers to Olympus, transforming Adonis into an anemone and Venus into the Evening Star.
Zeppelin captain Ulysses Eisenhardt lands on an island to obtain its fuel reserves, but the enchanting Gladys Thunderbolt ensnares his crew. The comic opera combines material from the Odyssey and Calderón’s El mayor encanto, amor.
Three-act Spanish opera by Juan Hidalgo de Polanco to a libretto by Pedro Calderón de la Barca.
After the former lover of Doña Mencía visits her, her husband Gutierre mistakes the circumstances and becomes convinced she has been unfaithful. He has her bled to death in the name of honor. The king then orders Gutierre to marry Leonor, whose reputation he had earlier damaged, prompting a warning that Gutierre may again act as judge of his honor.
Painter Juan Roca marries Serafina but feels unable to capture her soul in his art. After her former lover reappears and abducts her during a fire, Roca wrongly believes she was unfaithful and kills her, turning private revenge into public dishonor.
In a large corporation’s basement customer-service department, Segis Basil is kept isolated by his superstitious father, the company’s CEO. When his father gives him a day in charge, Segis’s misunderstanding of business language sends company stock plunging and he is returned to the basement. Meanwhile, employees compete for advancement and office conspiracies unfold.
The work begins with a prologue honoring Philip V. In the opera, Venus is rescued from a wild boar by Adonis, who says he has renounced love because of his incestuous birth. Venus pursues him, and Cupid shoots him with a golden arrow, making him desire her. Mars becomes jealous and plans revenge. After Mars arranges for a boar to attack Adonis, the animal mortally wounds him. Venus mourns his death, but Jupiter raises the lovers to Olympus, transforming Adonis into an anemone and Venus into the Evening Star.
E. T. A. Hoffmann’s three-act German Singspiel adapts a play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca through August Wilhelm Schlegel’s translation. Its plot turns on romantic confusions caused by disguises and misunderstandings of signs of love.
King Basilio imprisons his son Segismundo after a prophecy predicts the prince will ruin Poland and kill his father. Briefly freed, Segismundo acts violently and is returned to prison, where Basilio tells him his time at court was a dream. When rebels free him, Segismundo chooses mercy and restraint, reclaiming his throne while Rosaura seeks justice for her honor.
A three-act English-language opera based on Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s play, featuring Prince Segismundo, King Basilio, and Rosaura.
A four-act grand opera adapted from Calderón’s The Mayor of Zalamea. The entry does not describe the plot.
A Restoration comedy, written mainly in prose with some blank verse, that draws plot material from Calderón’s Con quien vengo vengo. Its subtitle, Love in a Nunnery, prompted suspicions of anti-Catholic satire.
God acts as the Author who assigns people roles in the world’s play: kings, the poor and the rich perform their parts, then receive reward or punishment according to how they lived.
The Captain and his lover Mrs Wanton scheme to punish the Parson for abandoning his old friends after gaining a church benefice. They trick him into marrying Wanton and humiliate him, while the Captain and other companions manipulate two widows and their suitors into further marriages. The comedy satirizes sexual and religious hypocrisy through bawdy verbal wit.
In Madrid, Doña Ángela seeks to win Don Manuel while avoiding the notice of her brothers, who confine and watch over her. Using an ingenious hidden means of communication that gives him the impression of an invisible woman, she draws him into a mysterious courtship.