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After losing money at the Derby, Beau Brummell retreats to the countryside, where his childhood friend Jim and former love Peggy re-enter his life. The Prince of Wales challenges Brummell to win Peggy as a lover; when Brummell loses the wager, Peggy offers to protect his reputation, but he instead supports her marriage to Jim.
At Les Halles, aristocrat Antonin ends his relationship with Zénobie and helps the farm-girl Ciboulette. A fortune-teller predicts Ciboulette will marry a man found under a cabbage after a woman turns white and she receives a death notice in a tambourine. Antonin is found asleep in Ciboulette’s vegetable cart, and he pretends to be a farm steward to escape the eight suitors arranged by her family. After jealousy separates them, Ciboulette disguises herself as a Spanish singer and helps Antonin recognize his love for her; the prophecy is fulfilled and they reunite.
A three-act French opera set in Polynesia, adapted from Pierre Loti’s semi-autobiographical novel Rarahu, also titled Le Mariage de Loti. It was Reynaldo Hahn’s first opera. No plot description is available in the reviewed text.
A four-act, five-scene comic opera by Reynaldo Hahn with a libretto by Catulle Mendès. The roles include Louise de La Vallière, Louis XIV, and the Archbishop. No plot description or exact premiere date is available in the reviewed text.
The curtain rises on a warm evening in India, centuries in the past. In front of a rock temple, a pool is seen with a lotus on the surface of the water. Snakes, tortoises, and other animals rest near the pool. The temple walls are covered with masses of flowering plants. A crowd is waiting for a ceremony to begin. The Young Man is about to become a priest of the temple. The Young Girl runs in and kneels at his feet. She does not want him to desert her for the priesthood and dances before him. The priests are shocked and lead The Young Man away while The Young Girl is prepared for death. The gates are shut. The Young Girl tries to escape, but monsters rise from a place beneath a trap door. The Goddess rises from the lotus. The Blue God rises from the pool, and calms the monsters with his flute. The monsters are trapped by the masses of plants. The Blue God's work is done. The priests enter. They are surprised to see The Young Girl still alive and fall on their knees before her. The Young Man rejoins The Young Girl. The Goddess orders a golden staircase to descend from the heavens. The Blue God flies up the staircase and disappears into the clouds.
Three-act French opera after Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. The source says the opera follows the play with some textual transpositions and omits Lancelot Gobbo and Old Gobbo; it gives no further plot detail.
In 1778 Paris, the young Mozart visits the salon of Madame d’Épinay, where Marie-Anne de Saint-Pons is being pressed to marry the Marquis de Chambreuil. Mozart entertains the company and later composes pieces while flirting with the dancer La Guimard and corresponding with Aloysia Weber in Mannheim. His attention to Marie-Anne also angers the Marquis, while Louise’s fiancé reproaches her for flirting with Mozart. Baron Grimm reveals that he arranged with Mozart’s father to hasten the composer’s departure. Mozart reluctantly bids farewell to the women and to Paris.
Parisian hatter Prosper Aubertin, dissatisfied with home life, places an advertisement seeking a soulmate. He chooses a reply and is angered to discover the handwriting belongs to his wife Antoinette; his daughter Marie-Anne has also answered, as has their maid Félicie. Prosper arranges meetings for them with the people they have been corresponding with, including his own wife and daughter. At a rented villa in the Basque region, owner Victor is mistaken for the mysterious correspondent. The confusion is resolved: the Aubertins reconcile, Marie-Anne accepts Claude, and Victor pairs with Félicie. Their mute friend Hilarion regains his voice.
After losing money at the Derby, Beau Brummell retreats to the countryside, where his childhood friend Jim and former love Peggy re-enter his life. The Prince of Wales challenges Brummell to win Peggy as a lover; when Brummell loses the wager, Peggy offers to protect his reputation, but he instead supports her marriage to Jim.
At Les Halles, aristocrat Antonin ends his relationship with Zénobie and helps the farm-girl Ciboulette. A fortune-teller predicts Ciboulette will marry a man found under a cabbage after a woman turns white and she receives a death notice in a tambourine. Antonin is found asleep in Ciboulette’s vegetable cart, and he pretends to be a farm steward to escape the eight suitors arranged by her family. After jealousy separates them, Ciboulette disguises herself as a Spanish singer and helps Antonin recognize his love for her; the prophecy is fulfilled and they reunite.
A three-act French opera set in Polynesia, adapted from Pierre Loti’s semi-autobiographical novel Rarahu, also titled Le Mariage de Loti. It was Reynaldo Hahn’s first opera. No plot description is available in the reviewed text.
A four-act, five-scene comic opera by Reynaldo Hahn with a libretto by Catulle Mendès. The roles include Louise de La Vallière, Louis XIV, and the Archbishop. No plot description or exact premiere date is available in the reviewed text.
The curtain rises on a warm evening in India, centuries in the past. In front of a rock temple, a pool is seen with a lotus on the surface of the water. Snakes, tortoises, and other animals rest near the pool. The temple walls are covered with masses of flowering plants. A crowd is waiting for a ceremony to begin. The Young Man is about to become a priest of the temple. The Young Girl runs in and kneels at his feet. She does not want him to desert her for the priesthood and dances before him. The priests are shocked and lead The Young Man away while The Young Girl is prepared for death. The gates are shut. The Young Girl tries to escape, but monsters rise from a place beneath a trap door. The Goddess rises from the lotus. The Blue God rises from the pool, and calms the monsters with his flute. The monsters are trapped by the masses of plants. The Blue God's work is done. The priests enter. They are surprised to see The Young Girl still alive and fall on their knees before her. The Young Man rejoins The Young Girl. The Goddess orders a golden staircase to descend from the heavens. The Blue God flies up the staircase and disappears into the clouds.
Three-act French opera after Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. The source says the opera follows the play with some textual transpositions and omits Lancelot Gobbo and Old Gobbo; it gives no further plot detail.
In 1778 Paris, the young Mozart visits the salon of Madame d’Épinay, where Marie-Anne de Saint-Pons is being pressed to marry the Marquis de Chambreuil. Mozart entertains the company and later composes pieces while flirting with the dancer La Guimard and corresponding with Aloysia Weber in Mannheim. His attention to Marie-Anne also angers the Marquis, while Louise’s fiancé reproaches her for flirting with Mozart. Baron Grimm reveals that he arranged with Mozart’s father to hasten the composer’s departure. Mozart reluctantly bids farewell to the women and to Paris.
Parisian hatter Prosper Aubertin, dissatisfied with home life, places an advertisement seeking a soulmate. He chooses a reply and is angered to discover the handwriting belongs to his wife Antoinette; his daughter Marie-Anne has also answered, as has their maid Félicie. Prosper arranges meetings for them with the people they have been corresponding with, including his own wife and daughter. At a rented villa in the Basque region, owner Victor is mistaken for the mysterious correspondent. The confusion is resolved: the Aubertins reconcile, Marie-Anne accepts Claude, and Victor pairs with Félicie. Their mute friend Hilarion regains his voice.