Amica
Set in the mountains of Savoy around 1900, this verismo domestic tragedy involves two brothers, Giorgio and Renaldo, and the woman they both love, Amica.
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Set in the mountains of Savoy around 1900, this verismo domestic tragedy involves two brothers, Giorgio and Renaldo, and the woman they both love, Amica.
In a Sicilian village on Easter morning, Santuzza tells Turiddu’s mother that he has returned to his affair with Lola, now married to Alfio. After Santuzza reveals the adultery, Alfio challenges Turiddu to a duel; Turiddu is killed, and the news reaches the villagers.
After rejecting Guglielmo Ratcliff, Maria is pursued by a succession of violent tragedies: Ratcliff challenges and kills her earlier suitors, then duels her betrothed, Count Douglas. A family revelation about Maria’s mother and Ratcliff’s father prompts Ratcliff to plead with Maria to flee. When she refuses, he kills her and her father, then dies by suicide.
A four-act Italian opera by Pietro Mascagni, based on Erckmann and Chatrian’s play Les Rantzau. The central lovers are first cousins who marry.
During the French Reign of Terror, Prince Jean-Charles, disguised as the Little Marat, discovers that his mother, the Princess of Fleury, is imprisoned. He enlists Mariella and a carpenter to forge safe-conducts and arrange a boat for their escape. The Little Marat is shot while restraining the corrupt Orc, but the carpenter kills the Orc, and the Little Marat and Mariella escape to free his mother.
Iris, the innocent daughter of the blind Il Cieco, lives happily with her father. Osaka, seeking adventure, arranges to have her kidnapped and taken to Kyoto’s geisha house in Yoshiwara. Osaka tries to seduce Iris but gives up and tells Kyoto to get rid of her. Kyoto displays her to the crowd; Il Cieco arrives, believes she abandoned him, and curses her. Iris becomes mad and throws herself into a sewer. The next morning she revives, hears the voices of Osaka, Kyoto, and her father, then dies as she feels the rising sun.
Set in the mountains of Savoy around 1900, this verismo domestic tragedy involves two brothers, Giorgio and Renaldo, and the woman they both love, Amica.
In a Sicilian village on Easter morning, Santuzza tells Turiddu’s mother that he has returned to his affair with Lola, now married to Alfio. After Santuzza reveals the adultery, Alfio challenges Turiddu to a duel; Turiddu is killed, and the news reaches the villagers.
After rejecting Guglielmo Ratcliff, Maria is pursued by a succession of violent tragedies: Ratcliff challenges and kills her earlier suitors, then duels her betrothed, Count Douglas. A family revelation about Maria’s mother and Ratcliff’s father prompts Ratcliff to plead with Maria to flee. When she refuses, he kills her and her father, then dies by suicide.
A four-act Italian opera by Pietro Mascagni, based on Erckmann and Chatrian’s play Les Rantzau. The central lovers are first cousins who marry.
During the French Reign of Terror, Prince Jean-Charles, disguised as the Little Marat, discovers that his mother, the Princess of Fleury, is imprisoned. He enlists Mariella and a carpenter to forge safe-conducts and arrange a boat for their escape. The Little Marat is shot while restraining the corrupt Orc, but the carpenter kills the Orc, and the Little Marat and Mariella escape to free his mother.
Iris, the innocent daughter of the blind Il Cieco, lives happily with her father. Osaka, seeking adventure, arranges to have her kidnapped and taken to Kyoto’s geisha house in Yoshiwara. Osaka tries to seduce Iris but gives up and tells Kyoto to get rid of her. Kyoto displays her to the crowd; Il Cieco arrives, believes she abandoned him, and curses her. Iris becomes mad and throws herself into a sewer. The next morning she revives, hears the voices of Osaka, Kyoto, and her father, then dies as she feels the rising sun.
King Raimondo seeks a husband for Isabeau, who refuses to choose. He forces her to ride naked through the city, where the people avert their eyes and demand that anyone who looks be blinded. The falconer Folco accidentally sees her and is imprisoned. Isabeau falls in love with him, but a mob kills Folco; Isabeau dies by suicide beside him.
Wealthy landowner Fritz bets the rabbi David that he will never marry, while David sees Suzel, the daughter of one of Fritz’s tenants, as a suitable bride. Fritz helps Suzel pick cherries and realizes he loves her, then becomes jealous when David says she is engaged. Suzel and Fritz declare their love, and David gives Fritz’s wagered vineyard to Suzel as a wedding gift.
A travelling commedia dell’arte troupe introduces the characters it will play. In the story, Florindo and Rosaura, aided by Colombina and Arlecchino, prevent Rosaura’s father Pantalone from arranging her marriage to another man.
Dutch orphan Lodoletta leaves her artist lover Flammen when he suggests they live together. Later, she follows him to Paris, but seeing his New Year’s Eve party, she collapses outside in the snow and dies, deliriously asking his forgiveness.
A three-act opera depicting Nero and figures of ancient Rome; the plot is not detailed.
In the three-act version, Ugo d’Este and his stepmother Parisina become lovers. When Marquis Nicolò d’Este discovers them, he condemns both to be beheaded.
Baldo, a worker, and Pinotta, a hand-spinner in Andrea’s workshop, fall in love and marry.
A two-act seafaring drama; the plot is not described in the available material.
A three-act operetta centered on Sì, an actress at the Folies Bergère named for her inability to say no. Its libretto draws on La duchessa del Bal Tabarin and Majestät Mimi.
Courtesan Silvia, who has renounced love, meets the wandering minstrel Zanetto and falls for him. She hides her identity and sends him toward the dawn rather than reveal herself; after he leaves, she says that love has let her weep again.