Das goldene Kreuz
Ignaz Brüll’s two-act German-language opera is a comic Singspiel based on a story by Mélesville, involving mistaken identities during the Napoleonic Wars. The available text gives no further plot details.
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Ignaz Brüll’s two-act German-language opera is a comic Singspiel based on a story by Mélesville, involving mistaken identities during the Napoleonic Wars. The available text gives no further plot details.
In a Hungarian village, Wania foils a robbery and is promised innkeeper Conrad’s daughter Maria, who loves Count Waldemar. Wania kills the Count and escapes with help from Isbrana and the gypsies. Later, after protecting Conrad and Maria from robbery, Wania is arrested; Isbrana kills herself when he refuses to flee with her.
During the Jewish revolt against Syria, Eleazar betrays the Maccabees after falling in love with King Antiochus’s daughter. He repents when Antiochus threatens his younger brothers; Juda renews the revolt, kills the king, and wins, while his mother Lea dies.
Frau Fluth and Frau Reich each receive a love letter from Falstaff and conspire to punish him. Their husbands suspect infidelity, but the women repeatedly trick Falstaff, first hiding him in a laundry basket and later disguising him as a maid. Meanwhile, Anna Reich resists her parents’ preferred suitors and loves Fenton. In Windsor Forest, the couples frighten and mock Falstaff at a masked ball, while Anna and Fenton marry; the families reconcile.
On a Lake District farm, the orphan Hannah and foundling Martin fall in love amid the household’s rivalries. Luke, seeking the estate and revenge, stirs suspicion between Hannah, Martin and the widowed Mabel. Hannah discovers Luke caused the fire that killed her father; he falls to his death during a storm, her father’s name is cleared, and Hannah and Martin are united.
Anton Rubinstein’s eight-scene sacred opera follows Moses from his rescue from the Nile by Pharaoh’s daughter through the golden-calf episode. A chorus of night spirits and celestials comments on the events.
Ignaz Brüll’s two-act German-language opera is a comic Singspiel based on a story by Mélesville, involving mistaken identities during the Napoleonic Wars. The available text gives no further plot details.
In a Hungarian village, Wania foils a robbery and is promised innkeeper Conrad’s daughter Maria, who loves Count Waldemar. Wania kills the Count and escapes with help from Isbrana and the gypsies. Later, after protecting Conrad and Maria from robbery, Wania is arrested; Isbrana kills herself when he refuses to flee with her.
During the Jewish revolt against Syria, Eleazar betrays the Maccabees after falling in love with King Antiochus’s daughter. He repents when Antiochus threatens his younger brothers; Juda renews the revolt, kills the king, and wins, while his mother Lea dies.
Frau Fluth and Frau Reich each receive a love letter from Falstaff and conspire to punish him. Their husbands suspect infidelity, but the women repeatedly trick Falstaff, first hiding him in a laundry basket and later disguising him as a maid. Meanwhile, Anna Reich resists her parents’ preferred suitors and loves Fenton. In Windsor Forest, the couples frighten and mock Falstaff at a masked ball, while Anna and Fenton marry; the families reconcile.
On a Lake District farm, the orphan Hannah and foundling Martin fall in love amid the household’s rivalries. Luke, seeking the estate and revenge, stirs suspicion between Hannah, Martin and the widowed Mabel. Hannah discovers Luke caused the fire that killed her father; he falls to his death during a storm, her father’s name is cleared, and Hannah and Martin are united.
Anton Rubinstein’s eight-scene sacred opera follows Moses from his rescue from the Nile by Pharaoh’s daughter through the golden-calf episode. A chorus of night spirits and celestials comments on the events.