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Sylvia takes a job at a telephone exchange to obtain government secrets and help secure a baronetcy for her father, who works as a mechanic in a building. Gregory Lester hears Sylvia’s voice over the telephone and comes to find her. After locating her at the exchange, he takes her to a casino in Nice.
Poet Thomas Chatterton lodges with a wealthy family and, unable to support himself by writing, takes a servant’s job. He conceals his love for his landlord’s wife, Jenny Clark; despairing over his circumstances and impossible love, he kills himself, and Jenny dies immediately afterward.
A German-language four-act opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo, adapted from Willibald Alexis’s 1840 historical novel of the same title. The opera received its Italian premiere in Naples under the title Rolando.
An Italian opera based on Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, with most of the original play’s choruses omitted.
Giuliano de’ Medici loves Simonetta Cattanei, who warns him of a conspiracy against his family. Simonetta is killed by the conspirators, who also kill Giuliano. Lorenzo escapes with the poet Poliziano’s help, wins the people’s support, and the conspirators are lynched.
In Paris, innkeeper Gaudenzio tries to evict the Bohemians, who cannot pay their bill, until Barbemuche pays for them. After Musette’s lover stops paying her debts, her furniture is seized, and the Bohemians gather in her courtyard, where a quarrel with the neighbors becomes a fight. Musette decides to leave Marcello, while Mimì leaves Rodolfo for Count Paul but later returns. In Rodolfo’s garret, Mimì arrives near death. Musette sells her jewels to buy fuel, but Mimì dies as the Christmas chimes sound.
Sylvia takes a job at a telephone exchange to obtain government secrets and help secure a baronetcy for her father, who works as a mechanic in a building. Gregory Lester hears Sylvia’s voice over the telephone and comes to find her. After locating her at the exchange, he takes her to a casino in Nice.
Poet Thomas Chatterton lodges with a wealthy family and, unable to support himself by writing, takes a servant’s job. He conceals his love for his landlord’s wife, Jenny Clark; despairing over his circumstances and impossible love, he kills himself, and Jenny dies immediately afterward.
A German-language four-act opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo, adapted from Willibald Alexis’s 1840 historical novel of the same title. The opera received its Italian premiere in Naples under the title Rolando.
An Italian opera based on Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, with most of the original play’s choruses omitted.
Giuliano de’ Medici loves Simonetta Cattanei, who warns him of a conspiracy against his family. Simonetta is killed by the conspirators, who also kill Giuliano. Lorenzo escapes with the poet Poliziano’s help, wins the people’s support, and the conspirators are lynched.
In Paris, innkeeper Gaudenzio tries to evict the Bohemians, who cannot pay their bill, until Barbemuche pays for them. After Musette’s lover stops paying her debts, her furniture is seized, and the Bohemians gather in her courtyard, where a quarrel with the neighbors becomes a fight. Musette decides to leave Marcello, while Mimì leaves Rodolfo for Count Paul but later returns. In Rodolfo’s garret, Mimì arrives near death. Musette sells her jewels to buy fuel, but Mimì dies as the Christmas chimes sound.
In Amiens, student des Grieux falls in love with Manon Lescaut, who is meant to enter a convent. He helps her escape with him to Paris, where they live in poverty. Manon later becomes the mistress of Geronte, a wealthy treasurer, but remains unhappy and reunites with des Grieux. When they try to flee, Geronte has her arrested and deported to Louisiana. Des Grieux follows her overseas. Crossing a desert after fleeing New Orleans, Manon grows exhausted and dies in his arms.
A commedia dell’arte troupe arrives in a Calabrian village. Canio, who plays Pagliaccio, warns the villagers that he will not tolerate anyone courting his wife Nedda. Nedda’s lover Silvio asks her to elope, but Canio catches them and cannot identify the man. During the performance, Nedda repeats the words she had said to Silvio. Canio abandons the play and demands her lover’s name. When she refuses, he stabs her; Silvio rushes to the stage and is also killed. Canio—or Tonio, in the original manuscript—announces that the comedy is finished.
Music-hall singer Zazà has an affair with Milio, but leaves him when she discovers that he is married.
Fleana, a Romani woman, falls in love with the nobleman Radu, and they marry after he vows to join her community. A year later, she confesses that she no longer loves Radu and runs away with Tamar, a poet who also loves her. Radu seals them inside a hut and sets it on fire, killing them both.