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Cyrano loves Roxane but helps the less eloquent Christian win her by writing letters and feeding him words from beneath her balcony. Christian dies in battle, leaving Roxane to cherish the letters; years later she recognizes Cyrano as their author shortly before he dies of his wounds.
After joining Aaron Burr’s conspiracy, Lieutenant Philip Nolan is convicted of treason and sentenced to spend his life aboard Navy ships, never hearing the United States mentioned. During exile he becomes a patriot; at Mary Rutledge’s urging he serves in battle against Barbary pirates, kills the enemy commander, and dies.
Walter Damrosch’s opera adapts Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, omitting Hester Prynne’s daughter Pearl. Unlike the novel, its ending has Hester take poison and die with Arthur Dimmesdale.
Cyrano loves Roxane but helps the less eloquent Christian win her by writing letters and feeding him words from beneath her balcony. Christian dies in battle, leaving Roxane to cherish the letters; years later she recognizes Cyrano as their author shortly before he dies of his wounds.
After joining Aaron Burr’s conspiracy, Lieutenant Philip Nolan is convicted of treason and sentenced to spend his life aboard Navy ships, never hearing the United States mentioned. During exile he becomes a patriot; at Mary Rutledge’s urging he serves in battle against Barbary pirates, kills the enemy commander, and dies.
Walter Damrosch’s opera adapts Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, omitting Hester Prynne’s daughter Pearl. Unlike the novel, its ending has Hester take poison and die with Arthur Dimmesdale.