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Jean, a duke hiding as a shepherd to escape a forced marriage, attracts Arlette’s love and Simone’s suspicion. At court, he kills Saladin while defending Arlette, but is accused of rebellion. After fighting on Charolais’s side, Jean loses his courage before battle; the king pardons him, and he leaves with Arlette.
A four-act French opera based on a novella by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch.
In British-ruled India, Lakmé, daughter of the Brahmin priest Nilakantha, meets British officer Gérald after he remains behind to sketch her jewellery. They fall in love, and Nilakantha vows revenge for the officer’s intrusion. At a bazaar, Nilakantha makes Lakmé sing the Bell Song to expose Gérald, then stabs him. Lakmé hides and nurses him in the forest. When Gérald’s fellow officer reminds him of his military duty, Lakmé realizes he will leave her. She takes poison from a datura leaf; she and Gérald drink from a spring said to grant eternal love, and Lakmé dies.
In the lethargic town of Quiquendonne, Dr Ox plans to enliven the citizens with a new gas while trying to evade his former fiancée, Princess Prascovia. The experiment intensifies the townspeople’s passions and romantic entanglements; after the gas drives the town toward war, a laboratory explosion restores the old calm, and Ox reunites with Prascovia.
In Arcadia, Myriame and Daphné fall in love despite their parents’ plans to dedicate them to the gods. When Myriame mistakenly believes hunters have killed Daphné, he attempts suicide, but Eros saves him and sends the lovers through different eras. At a Louis XV mansion, they return as Colin and Annette amid flirtation and intrigue. In the final pastoral, they become La Rouge and Nicot, while Eros stirs jealousy at a wedding feast before the antique visitors ascend to the heavens.
On her way to a convent, Manon meets the Chevalier des Grieux and elopes with him to Paris. After his father has des Grieux abducted, Manon leaves with the wealthy de Brétigny. Later she learns des Grieux has become an abbé and persuades him to return to her. They reunite and gamble together, but Guillot accuses des Grieux of cheating; he is arrested, while Manon is condemned to deportation. Des Grieux is released and tries to rescue her, but she is too ill to escape. In his arms, Manon recalls their past happiness and dies.
Button merchant Cyrille Durand has taken in Jacquot and helped Pierrette, unaware that Jacquot arranged for Pierrette to come to Paris so they could marry. They dress as Savoyards to win Durand’s consent, but he plans to marry Pierrette himself. A false report of a drowning sends Durand rushing out; after he returns soaked, Madame Patacha persuades him to approve the young couple’s marriage and marry her himself.
A three-act operetta based on Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, through the stage adaptation by Dion Boucicault and Joseph Jefferson.
On an Oceanic island, chief Vent-du-soir entertains neighboring chief Lapin-courageux after each has eaten the other’s wife. Vent-du-soir’s daughter Atala loves shipwrecked hairdresser Arthur. Vent-du-soir plans to sacrifice Arthur, but Lapin-courageux hears the musical watch of his lost son in the meal. Arthur had hidden in a bear skin, and they had eaten the bear instead; Atala and Arthur can marry.
Jean, a duke hiding as a shepherd to escape a forced marriage, attracts Arlette’s love and Simone’s suspicion. At court, he kills Saladin while defending Arlette, but is accused of rebellion. After fighting on Charolais’s side, Jean loses his courage before battle; the king pardons him, and he leaves with Arlette.
A four-act French opera based on a novella by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch.
In British-ruled India, Lakmé, daughter of the Brahmin priest Nilakantha, meets British officer Gérald after he remains behind to sketch her jewellery. They fall in love, and Nilakantha vows revenge for the officer’s intrusion. At a bazaar, Nilakantha makes Lakmé sing the Bell Song to expose Gérald, then stabs him. Lakmé hides and nurses him in the forest. When Gérald’s fellow officer reminds him of his military duty, Lakmé realizes he will leave her. She takes poison from a datura leaf; she and Gérald drink from a spring said to grant eternal love, and Lakmé dies.
In the lethargic town of Quiquendonne, Dr Ox plans to enliven the citizens with a new gas while trying to evade his former fiancée, Princess Prascovia. The experiment intensifies the townspeople’s passions and romantic entanglements; after the gas drives the town toward war, a laboratory explosion restores the old calm, and Ox reunites with Prascovia.
In Arcadia, Myriame and Daphné fall in love despite their parents’ plans to dedicate them to the gods. When Myriame mistakenly believes hunters have killed Daphné, he attempts suicide, but Eros saves him and sends the lovers through different eras. At a Louis XV mansion, they return as Colin and Annette amid flirtation and intrigue. In the final pastoral, they become La Rouge and Nicot, while Eros stirs jealousy at a wedding feast before the antique visitors ascend to the heavens.
On her way to a convent, Manon meets the Chevalier des Grieux and elopes with him to Paris. After his father has des Grieux abducted, Manon leaves with the wealthy de Brétigny. Later she learns des Grieux has become an abbé and persuades him to return to her. They reunite and gamble together, but Guillot accuses des Grieux of cheating; he is arrested, while Manon is condemned to deportation. Des Grieux is released and tries to rescue her, but she is too ill to escape. In his arms, Manon recalls their past happiness and dies.
Button merchant Cyrille Durand has taken in Jacquot and helped Pierrette, unaware that Jacquot arranged for Pierrette to come to Paris so they could marry. They dress as Savoyards to win Durand’s consent, but he plans to marry Pierrette himself. A false report of a drowning sends Durand rushing out; after he returns soaked, Madame Patacha persuades him to approve the young couple’s marriage and marry her himself.
A three-act operetta based on Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, through the stage adaptation by Dion Boucicault and Joseph Jefferson.
On an Oceanic island, chief Vent-du-soir entertains neighboring chief Lapin-courageux after each has eaten the other’s wife. Vent-du-soir’s daughter Atala loves shipwrecked hairdresser Arthur. Vent-du-soir plans to sacrifice Arthur, but Lapin-courageux hears the musical watch of his lost son in the meal. Arthur had hidden in a bear skin, and they had eaten the bear instead; Atala and Arthur can marry.