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At an inn in the Austrian Alps, poet Gregor Mittenhofer uses those around him—including his secretary, doctor, young muse Elisabeth, and a widow troubled by visions—as material for his art. When a young man arrives and attracts Elisabeth, Mittenhofer lets the couple go into a snowstorm without warning them. They die, and he turns the tragedy into a wordless elegy.
An English-language opera based on Shakespeare’s play, with scenes centered on the couples and a plot stretched over four seasons.
As war breaks out between fictional Ostnia and Westland, parallel households occupy opposite halves of a shared stage but cannot perceive one another. Their son and daughter sense each other’s presence, and the play ends with the lovers meeting in a visionary scene.
A tragic charade about two feuding families whose reconciliation is shattered when a mother, avenging her elder son's death, incites her younger son to shoot the bridegroom at a wedding.
Climber Michael Ransom reluctantly accepts a British press and government expedition to the peak of F6, a mountain on the border of a British colony and the fictional country of Ostnia. His rush to reach the summit before the Ostnian climbers destroys him; the story functions as a parable about leadership, ambition, and power.
In Thebes, Pentheus tries to suppress the cult of Dionysus, whose followers embrace ecstatic revelry. A stranger—Dionysus in disguise—draws the city into the cult and entrances Pentheus, who goes to the mountain dressed as a woman. Dionysus’s spell reaches Pentheus’s mother Agave and sister Autonoë; Pentheus is torn apart, and Agave unknowingly cradles his head as the city falls.
A satirical verse-and-prose extravaganza portrays the 'death inside' the middle classes through a silent dancer who seeks survival in escapism, nationalism, idealism, and hedonism before Karl Marx declares him dead.
Alan Norman searches for Sir Francis Crewe, the missing heir of Honeypot Hall, on a satiric journey through Europe and England. A large dog accompanies him and proves to be the heir in disguise. The ending differs between the printed text and Auden’s revised stage version: the former has Francis leave to join a revolutionary movement, while the latter ends with his death.
Tom Rakewell rejects steady work and leaves Anne Trulove for London with Nick Shadow, who tells him that he has inherited a fortune. Tom enters a brothel, then follows Shadow’s advice to marry Baba the Turk. Bored with his marriage, he wishes for a way to turn stones into bread; Shadow produces a sham machine and encourages Tom to market it. The scheme fails, and Tom is ruined. In a graveyard, Shadow demands Tom’s soul, but Tom wins their card game with Anne’s help. Shadow condemns him to madness. In Bedlam, Tom believes he is Adonis. Anne visits and sings to him, then leaves; Tom dies.
A reclusive king of a mythical realm hears about his kingdom only by overhearing conversations. When a traveling troupe arrives to stage The Tempest, the king listens to auditions and rehearsals and begins to imagine himself as Prospero, confusing the play with events in his own kingdom. He undergoes a psychological collapse, the production never takes place, and the troupe leaves. The king then has a vision of the future as he moves toward death.
At an inn in the Austrian Alps, poet Gregor Mittenhofer uses those around him—including his secretary, doctor, young muse Elisabeth, and a widow troubled by visions—as material for his art. When a young man arrives and attracts Elisabeth, Mittenhofer lets the couple go into a snowstorm without warning them. They die, and he turns the tragedy into a wordless elegy.
An English-language opera based on Shakespeare’s play, with scenes centered on the couples and a plot stretched over four seasons.
As war breaks out between fictional Ostnia and Westland, parallel households occupy opposite halves of a shared stage but cannot perceive one another. Their son and daughter sense each other’s presence, and the play ends with the lovers meeting in a visionary scene.
A tragic charade about two feuding families whose reconciliation is shattered when a mother, avenging her elder son's death, incites her younger son to shoot the bridegroom at a wedding.
Climber Michael Ransom reluctantly accepts a British press and government expedition to the peak of F6, a mountain on the border of a British colony and the fictional country of Ostnia. His rush to reach the summit before the Ostnian climbers destroys him; the story functions as a parable about leadership, ambition, and power.
In Thebes, Pentheus tries to suppress the cult of Dionysus, whose followers embrace ecstatic revelry. A stranger—Dionysus in disguise—draws the city into the cult and entrances Pentheus, who goes to the mountain dressed as a woman. Dionysus’s spell reaches Pentheus’s mother Agave and sister Autonoë; Pentheus is torn apart, and Agave unknowingly cradles his head as the city falls.
A satirical verse-and-prose extravaganza portrays the 'death inside' the middle classes through a silent dancer who seeks survival in escapism, nationalism, idealism, and hedonism before Karl Marx declares him dead.
Alan Norman searches for Sir Francis Crewe, the missing heir of Honeypot Hall, on a satiric journey through Europe and England. A large dog accompanies him and proves to be the heir in disguise. The ending differs between the printed text and Auden’s revised stage version: the former has Francis leave to join a revolutionary movement, while the latter ends with his death.
Tom Rakewell rejects steady work and leaves Anne Trulove for London with Nick Shadow, who tells him that he has inherited a fortune. Tom enters a brothel, then follows Shadow’s advice to marry Baba the Turk. Bored with his marriage, he wishes for a way to turn stones into bread; Shadow produces a sham machine and encourages Tom to market it. The scheme fails, and Tom is ruined. In a graveyard, Shadow demands Tom’s soul, but Tom wins their card game with Anne’s help. Shadow condemns him to madness. In Bedlam, Tom believes he is Adonis. Anne visits and sings to him, then leaves; Tom dies.
A reclusive king of a mythical realm hears about his kingdom only by overhearing conversations. When a traveling troupe arrives to stage The Tempest, the king listens to auditions and rehearsals and begins to imagine himself as Prospero, confusing the play with events in his own kingdom. He undergoes a psychological collapse, the production never takes place, and the troupe leaves. The king then has a vision of the future as he moves toward death.