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In Seville, cigar maker Conchita resists Matteo’s advances even after he gives money to her mother. She leaves and becomes a flamenco dancer; when Matteo follows her, she stages a meeting with a false lover to provoke his jealousy and test his feelings. Convinced of his love, she reciprocates.
Francesca is led to believe that Paolo, the handsome brother of her intended husband Gianciotto, is her future bridegroom, and they fall in love. After she marries Gianciotto, she and Paolo meet secretly; Malatestino exposes them, and Gianciotto kills them both.
An Italian opera based on Selma Lagerlöf’s novel Gösta Berling’s Saga.
Riccardo Zandonai’s three-act opera adapts Charles Dickens’s The Cricket on the Hearth. Its characters include carrier John Peerybingle and his wife Dot, toymakers Caleb Plummer and Tackleton, and the Plummer family.
Riccardo Zandonai’s three-act comic opera adapts Alarcón’s novel El sombrero de tres picos. The libretto moves the action to Lombardy while retaining Spanish names and includes two love-lorn donkeys, Ciccio and Checca.
In Seville, cigar maker Conchita resists Matteo’s advances even after he gives money to her mother. She leaves and becomes a flamenco dancer; when Matteo follows her, she stages a meeting with a false lover to provoke his jealousy and test his feelings. Convinced of his love, she reciprocates.
Francesca is led to believe that Paolo, the handsome brother of her intended husband Gianciotto, is her future bridegroom, and they fall in love. After she marries Gianciotto, she and Paolo meet secretly; Malatestino exposes them, and Gianciotto kills them both.
An Italian opera based on Selma Lagerlöf’s novel Gösta Berling’s Saga.
Riccardo Zandonai’s three-act opera adapts Charles Dickens’s The Cricket on the Hearth. Its characters include carrier John Peerybingle and his wife Dot, toymakers Caleb Plummer and Tackleton, and the Plummer family.
Riccardo Zandonai’s three-act comic opera adapts Alarcón’s novel El sombrero de tres picos. The libretto moves the action to Lombardy while retaining Spanish names and includes two love-lorn donkeys, Ciccio and Checca.