Creso
This three-act Italian opera seria is based on Book I of Herodotus's Histories, the account associated with Croesus.
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Poor cobbler Crispino cannot make ends meet. A fairy encourages him to practice medicine, although he cannot read, and helps him become successful. He grows unable to handle prosperity and mistreats his wife. The fairy makes him recognize his faults, and his family is happily reunited.
Cristina, regina di Svezia
Queen Cristina’s favorite Gabriele loves her cousin Maria, while Cristina hopes to marry Gabriele herself. After Maria refuses a marriage to Erik and reveals her love for Gabriele, conspirators exploit the court’s divisions and plot against the queen. Cristina suppresses the revolt, forgives Gabriele and the conspirators, consents to his marriage with Maria, and abdicates in favor of Carlo Gustavo.
Cristoforo Colombo
The opera follows Columbus’s voyage of discovery, opposition to the expedition from Spanish authorities, and Queen Isabella’s encouragement. After overcoming difficulties and achieving his goal, Columbus learns of Isabella’s death and grieves.
Croesus
Croesus, king of Lydia, ignores Solon's warning that wealth does not guarantee happiness. When Cyrus invades, Croesus is captured and condemned. His son Atis, who has just regained his speech, disguises himself as a Persian soldier to return to court and thwart Orsanes's attempt to seize power. Solon persuades Cyrus to spare Croesus, who returns to his throne; Atis and Elmira reunite.
Cronaca del luogo
Berio’s five-scene musical action incorporates rabbinic literature and poetry by Paul Celan and Marina Tsvetaeva into an Italian libretto compiled by Talia Pecker Berio. Berio described the work as an azione musicale rather than an opera.
Croquefer, ou Le dernier des paladins
After abducting Fleur-de-Soufre, Croquefer wants to end his long feud with her father, the mutilated knight Mousse-à-Mort. Fleur-de-Soufre and Croquefer’s nephew Ramasse-ta-Tête plot to escape and marry; poisoned drinks interrupt the men’s confrontation, and a final letter reveals the composer and librettists are being taken to an asylum.
Crossing
During the American Civil War, Walt Whitman volunteers as a nurse and cares for wounded soldier John Wormley, who conceals that he is a Confederate. Their intimacy and Wormley’s letter threaten the Union hospital, leading to a confrontation before a messenger announces the war’s end.
Créuse l’athénienne
A prologue and five-act tragédie en musique by Louis Lacoste, with a libretto by Pierre-Charles Roy.
Curlew River
In medieval East Anglia, a Madwoman searches for her son, who disappeared a year earlier. A Ferryman tells how a sick boy was abandoned by his master near the river and died, asking to be buried by the path to a chapel. As the Ferryman recounts the story, the Madwoman realizes the boy was her son. She prays at his grave, and the boy’s spirit appears to comfort her. Her madness lifts, and the Abbot closes the parable.
Cyberiada
To relieve Queen Genia’s melancholy, the android engineer Trull builds machines that tell her stories. Their nested tales follow a supercomputer made for a king, a ruler lost in erotic dream cupboards, and a castaway who becomes an enemy of technology. The stories reflect on human existence and the limits of progress; in the finale, Trull kills his clone.
Cymon
Cymon, a captive prince, falls in love with the shepherdess Sylvia. His captor Urganda threatens her, but Merlin frustrates the plan and allows the lovers to unite.
Cyrano
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.
Cyrano
Cyrano loves Roxane but believes she cannot love him because of his large nose. Roxane loves Christian, a handsome but inarticulate soldier. Cyrano writes letters to Roxane in Christian’s name and speaks for him beneath her balcony, enabling Christian to win her. During the siege of Arras, Roxane tells Christian she would love him even if he were ugly. Christian realizes she loves Cyrano’s words and asks him to reveal the truth, but dies before he can do so. Fifteen years later, Roxane recognizes Cyrano as the author of the letters as he dies in her arms.
Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano loves his cousin Roxane but believes his appearance rules out her love. When she falls for the handsome Christian, Cyrano supplies the eloquent letters and words that win her, while Christian gives Cyrano the chance to protect her at the siege of Arras. Christian dies in battle, and years later Roxane realizes that Cyrano wrote the letters; he dies after finally revealing his love.
Cyrano de Bergerac
Opera in three acts and an epilogue based on Edmond Rostand’s play. Its title character is described as a poet and cadet with a range from humor to tragedy; the entry supplies no plot synopsis.
Céphale et Procris
Céphale and Procris love each other, but the dawn goddess Aurora and Thracian prince Borée complicate their marriage plans. Aurora’s spell briefly makes Procris believe Céphale has been unfaithful, then Aurora reverses it; Procris is accidentally struck by Céphale’s arrow while intervening in his fight with Borée and dies.
Céphale et Procris
Aurora, who loves Cephalus, prophesies that he will kill Procris and drives him away from her. Later, as Cephalus hunts, Procris hides to listen to him; mistaking her sigh for an animal, he shoots and mortally wounds her. Cupid revives Procris and grants the couple immortality.
Cô Sao
A Vietnamese-language western-style opera by Đỗ Nhuận. No plot information is supplied.
Da gelo a gelo
Across 100 scenes set in 1002–03, the opera depicts Izumi Shikibu’s affair with Prince Atsumishi.
Daddy's Girl
Opera by composer Olli Kortekangas and librettist Michael Baran, commissioned by the Savonlinna Opera Festival and the Finnish Parliament.
Dafne
After Apollo kills Python, he challenges Cupid to an archery contest. Cupid retaliates by making Apollo fall in love with the nymph Daphne. Daphne flees Apollo and transforms into a laurel tree. Apollo makes a crown from its leaves, which become a symbol of poetry, music, and freedom.
Dafne
After Apollo kills a monster that terrorizes shepherds, Cupid makes him fall in love with Daphne. Apollo pursues her until her father Peneus turns her into a laurel tree, whose leaves become a lasting gift to poets.
Dafne in lauro
Pursued by Apollo, Daphne appeals to Diana for rescue and is transformed into a laurel tree.
Daisi
In a Georgian village preparing for the Khatoba holiday, Maro grieves for her absent lover Malkhaz and dreads her forced engagement to Commander Kiazo. Malkhaz returns, learns of the engagement and seeks Maro, but she resists because she believes they cannot be together. Tsangala tells Kiazo that Maro still loves Malkhaz, provoking jealousy. As the feast continues, Maro and Malkhaz meet again, but Nano warns them that Kiazo is coming. News arrives that an enemy has invaded, and Kiazo calls the people to defend their homeland. Maro tells Kiazo she never loved him and returns her ring. Kiazo, consumed by revenge, fatally stabs Malkhaz despite his appeal to duty. Maro mourns as the people grieve and the warriors depart to protect the country.
Dalibor
Dalibor, a Czech knight, is tried for killing the burgrave of Ploskovice in revenge for the death of his friend Zdeněk. The court commutes his sentence to life imprisonment. Milada, the burgrave’s sister, falls in love with Dalibor and conspires with Jitka to free him. Disguised as a boy, she becomes the jailer Beneš’s assistant and visits Dalibor with Zdeněk’s violin. Their escape plan fails, and the king orders Dalibor’s execution. Milada storms the castle but is wounded and dies; Dalibor kills himself.
Dance of the Hours
A short ballet within Act III of Ponchielli's opera La Gioconda, depicting dawn, day, twilight, and night through solo and ensemble dances. The choreography, lighting, and costume changes symbolize the struggle between light and darkness.
Dandy Dick Whittington
Circus rider Dandy Dick loves Alice Fitzwarren, but her mother opposes their match. Dick’s acrobat friend Larry is unexpectedly selected as King of Siam, and the circus travels there. Dick follows with Captain Fairfax, who loves Lola. At Larry’s enthronement, he makes Dick first minister, making Dick a suitable suitor for Alice. When the real king returns, Larry gladly relinquishes the throne and marries Willasee; Dick and Alice also marry.
Dante et Béatrice
Dante is depicted as a young man entangled in political and romantic intrigues as he seeks Beatrice.
Dantons Tod
During the French Revolution, Georges Danton and Camille Desmoulins call for an end to the daily executions. Robespierre and Saint-Just decide they must be killed. Danton refuses to flee, is tried and guillotined with Camille, and Lucile is arrested after crying “Long live the king.”
Daphne
A lost opera by Handel and Hinrich Hinsch based on the Daphne myth. Its surviving libretto centers on conflict between Phoebus and Cupid and a web of often unrequited loves; the entry does not provide the detailed plot.
Daphne
Daphne, devoted to nature, rejects the love of her childhood friend Leukippos and of a mysterious herdsman, who is Apollo. At a Dionysian festival, Apollo reveals Leukippos’s disguise and kills him with an arrow. Grieving Daphne, Apollo asks Zeus to transform her into a tree, and she rejoices in her union with nature.
Daphnis et Alcimadure
Daphnis loves the shepherdess Alcimadure, who doubts his sincerity. Disguised as a soldier, her brother Jeanet tests Daphnis, who proves his courage by rescuing her from a wolf; Alcimadure still denies her love. When she believes Daphnis dead, she confesses that she loves him too, and the lovers reunite after learning the death was a ruse.
Daphnis et Chloé
In ancient Greece, Pan pursues the proud shepherdess Chloé while she loves the shepherd Daphnis. A group of bacchantes tries to cure Daphnis’s lovesickness with seduction and a potion of forgetfulness, but the lovers reunite after Pan accidentally drinks the potion himself.
Daphnis et Eglé
Shepherd Daphnis and shepherdess Eglé believe they are only friends until Cupid reveals that they are in love with each other.
Dardanus
Dardanus, at war with King Teucer, falls in love with Teucer’s daughter Iphise, who is promised to Anténor. The magician Isménor enables the lovers to meet. After Dardanus is captured, Venus rescues him and sends him to fight a monster attacking the coast. Dardanus saves Anténor from the creature, and Teucer agrees to peace and the marriage.
Dardanus
French tragédie lyrique by Antonio Sacchini in four acts, later revised to three. Nicolas-François Guillard adapted a libretto previously set by Rameau.
Das Christ-Elflein
In a midwinter forest, the elf Elflein asks the tree spirit Tannengreis about Christmas. Frieder passes on his way to seek a doctor for his dying sister Trautchen, while his servants encounter Knecht Ruprecht as they search for a tree. The Christ Child promises to bring Trautchen a tree on Christmas Eve, and Elflein follows him despite Tannengreis’s warnings. At the family home, the Christ Child says Trautchen will die. Elflein offers to take her place; the Christ Child grants the elf a soul and names him Christ-Elflein, allowing him to return each Christmas. Trautchen recovers, Frieder regains his faith, and Tannengreis makes peace with humanity.
Das Gesicht im Spiegel
A biotech company owner’s dependence on stock-market fluctuations frames the exposure of a human clone to the outside world and the complications of a love triangle. The opera explores the emotional and ethical consequences of human cloning.
Das Herz
A three-act German-language opera by Hans Pfitzner.
Das Himmelskleid
A princess rejects suitor after suitor and sends her most eligible suitor on a quest for the Garment of Heaven. Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari’s opera is based on Charles Perrault’s Donkeyskin.
Das Jagdgewehr
A poet observes hunter Josuke Misugi, whose wife Midori asks for a divorce. His secret lover Saiko is also Midori’s cousin and best friend; Saiko and Josuke have a daughter, Shoko.
Das Käthchen von Heilbronn
A four-act romantic opera based on Heinrich von Kleist’s drama of the same name.
Das Labyrinth oder Der Kampf mit den Elementen. Der Zauberflöte zweyter Theil
As Pamina and Tamino prepare to marry, the Queen of the Night and Tipheus try to separate them, while Sarastro requires them to complete a labyrinth trial. Papageno searches for Papagena and encounters his family; Monostatos repeatedly schemes to win Papagena. With help from the genii, Tamino and Pamina reunite, and Tamino defeats Tipheus in a duel before marrying Pamina.
Das Liebesverbot
Governor Friedrich enforces strict moral laws in Palermo, sentencing Claudio to death for an amorous indiscretion. Claudio’s sister Isabella pleads for his release, but Friedrich demands her body in exchange. Isabella arranges a masked meeting with Friedrich and substitutes her friend Marianne, whom Friedrich had previously betrayed. After the governor is exposed, Claudio is freed and Friedrich asks the returning King to judge him. Claudio explains that death need not be the penalty for a love offence, and the town celebrates Carnival.
Das Lied der Nacht
Dramatic ballad set in twelfth-century Palermo.
Das Mädchen aus Domrémy
A two-act opera about Joan of Arc by Giselher and Lore Klebe, based on Friedrich Schiller’s play The Maid of Orleans.
Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern
Lachenmann’s two-part Musik mit Bildern reworks Andersen’s tale of the little match girl through added political and philosophical texts. The work explores icy cold and social indifference; Lachenmann described Gudrun Ensslin as a distorted variant of the girl, while Leonardo da Vinci’s text adds a wider perspective. Its two sopranos and choirs narrate and reflect on the story in an experimental musical form. The entry does not give a continuous plot.
Das Märchen von der schönen Lilie
A two-act opera by Giselher Klebe and Lore Klebe based on Goethe’s symbolic fairy tale Das Märchen.
Das Nachtlager in Granada
A two-act German romantic opera set in Granada, Spain, in the mid-sixteenth century.
Das Nusch-Nuschi
A one-act expressionist opera described as a play for Burmese marionettes. The work satirizes European drama and opera through puppet-theatre conventions and slapstick elements.
Das Opfer
At the South Pole in 1912, Scott, Wilson, Bowers, and Oates are the last survivors of the expedition. Oates’s frozen feet slow the others, but they refuse to abandon him. During a storm, Oates leaves the tent and walks into the snow to die. The penguin chorus first mocks him, then honors his self-sacrifice as the surviving explorers pay their respects.
Das Pfauenfest
The fairy Morgana spreads lies about Lenore, causing Karados to stop loving her and King Arthur to banish her. While Lenore is away, the King arranges for Karados to marry his niece. A guardian spirit gives Lenore a beautiful gown and brings her to the court disguised as a minstrel. The gown flies away from every woman until Lenore tries it on; a drinking horn can be emptied only by Karados. The King accepts Lenore back and the pair are betrothed.
Das Rendezvous
A one-act comic chamber opera in which meetings between three men and three women are treated as a burlesque about changing the norms of marriage.
Das Rheingold
Alberich steals the Rhinegold after renouncing love and forges a ring that grants power. Wotan and Loge travel to Nibelheim, seize Alberich’s hoard, and take the ring to pay the giants who built Valhalla and hold Freia hostage. Alberich curses the ring. Warned by Erda, Wotan gives it to the giants; Fafner kills Fasolt over the treasure. The gods enter Valhalla, while the Rhinemaidens mourn the loss of their gold.
Das Schloß
Aribert Reimann’s adaptation of Kafka’s novel follows the stranger K., who arrives in a community that rejects him and is observed by an opaque apparatus.
Das Schloß Dürande
An opera by Othmar Schoeck based on Joseph von Eichendorff’s novel of the same title.
Das Schweigen der Sirenen
The opera draws on Franz Kafka’s short story about Odysseus, Circe and the Sirens.
Das Spielwerk und die Prinzessin
A two-act opera by Franz Schreker.
Das Testament
Set in 1750 in Austria’s Ausseerland, the musical comedy follows an old, unmarried mayor and innkeeper who has promised his assets to his friends. Persuaded to disinherit them and fake his death, he hides to observe their reactions.
Das Wunder der Heliane
In an unnamed totalitarian state, a ruler condemns a stranger who has brought joy to his subjects. Heliane visits the prisoner and falls in love with him, but refuses his request to give herself to him. The ruler discovers them and puts her on trial for adultery. After the stranger kills himself, Heliane must prove her innocence by restoring him to life. As she is taken to execution, he miraculously rises. The ruler wounds Heliane, and the lovers ascend together as the stranger's blessing ends his power.
Das geheime Königreich
A satirical fairy-tale opera in which a king seeks to resign after a revolution. The queen falls in love with a revolutionary leader and is transformed into a tree.
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.
Das verratene Meer
Set in summer and winter, the opera centers on Fusako Kuroda, her son Noboru, and merchant navy officer Ryuji Tsukazaki.
David
A five-act, twelve-scene biblical opera about King David, based on the Books of Samuel.
David Bek
Opera about the early-18th-century Armenian struggle led by the historical figure David Bek against Persian and Ottoman forces. Armen Tigranian began the work; collaborators completed it after his death.
David et Jonathas
Disguised, King Saul consults the Witch of Endor, who summons Samuel’s ghost and hears a prophecy that Saul will lose his children, friends and crown. Banished by Saul, David takes refuge with the Philistines and returns from victory hoping Jonathan, Saul’s son and his beloved, will be spared. During a truce, Jonathan and David meet, while the jealous Israelite general Joabel schemes against David. Joabel persuades Saul that David is plotting against him, and David is forced to leave. Saul then chooses war. The Philistines defeat Israel; Jonathan dies in David’s arms, and Saul falls on his sword to avoid capture. Though Achis names David the new king of Israel, David grieves for Jonathan.
Days and Nights with Christ
The work explores images associated with schizophrenia and was inspired by the experiences of the composer’s brother and their shared Greek heritage. The libretto combines Byzantine liturgy, Old and New Testament material, text from Emanuel Bronner’s Rules for Life and interpretations of commentary by people with schizophrenia.
De temporum fine comoedia
In this three-part mystery play about the end of time, the Sibyls foretell judgment, the Anchorites contemplate the end of the world, and Dies illa depicts its destruction. After worldly existence has ended, Lucifer asks forgiveness and is restored as an angel. The work concludes with Bach’s Vor deinen Thron tret ich hiermit, presented in a canon and its mirror image.
Dead Man Walking
Sister Helen Prejean agrees to serve as spiritual adviser to Joseph De Rocher, a prisoner on death row for murdering two teenagers. She faces criticism from fellow sisters, prison officials, and the victims’ families as she supports his appeal for clemency. The pardon board rejects his request, and the governor declines to intervene. Before his execution, De Rocher confesses the murders to Helen and asks the victims’ parents for forgiveness. He is executed while Helen remains with him.
Dead Souls
Shchedrin's three-act Russian-language opera adapts Nikolai Gogol's novel Dead Souls. A radio recording was made in 1976, followed by a vinyl and CD release in 1982.
Death in Venice
The novelist Gustav von Aschenbach travels from Munich to Venice seeking renewed inspiration. There he becomes fascinated by the Polish boy Tadzio, while cholera spreads through the city. Aschenbach follows Tadzio and his family, conceals the danger from them, and remains in Venice. After the family leaves, Aschenbach watches Tadzio on the beach, grows too weak to rise, and dies as the boy walks out to sea.
Decebalo
Two-act opera by Leonardo Leo about Decebalus, king of the Dacians.
Deidamia
Achilles, disguised as a girl named Pyrrha, lives on Skyros and has become Deidamia’s lover. Odysseus and Phoenix arrive to recruit him for the Trojan War. They expose his identity by hiding weapons among women’s finery. Achilles agrees to go to war, and after a quarrel, Odysseus reconciles him with Deidamia. Phoenix and Nerea also unite.
Demetrio
Cleonice, queen of Syria, loves the shepherd Alceste, who is secretly the exiled prince Demetrio. She faces pressure to choose a husband, while her councillor Olinto pursues the throne. After separations and political schemes, Fenicio reveals Alceste’s identity; Cleonice and Demetrio take the throne together, and the rival courtiers reconcile.
Demetrio
An Italian opera seria in three acts by Josef Mysliveček, his first setting of Metastasio’s Demetrio libretto. The characters include Cleonice, queen of Syria, and Alceste, who is later revealed to be Demetrio, king of Syria.
Demetrio
An Italian opera seria in three acts by Josef Mysliveček, his second setting of Metastasio’s Demetrio libretto. Its characters include Cleonice, queen of Syria, and Alceste, later revealed as Demetrio, king of Syria.
Demetrio (Araja)
A distinct setting or adaptation of Pietro Metastasio’s Demetrio libretto by Francesco Araja. Performed in May 1734 at Teatro delle Grazie, Vicenza; the source says it may have been performed with Leonardo Leo. No version-specific plot is supplied.
Demetrio (Bioni)
A distinct setting or adaptation of Pietro Metastasio’s Demetrio libretto by Antonio Bioni. Premiered in June 1732 at the Theater im Ballhaus in Wrocław. No version-specific plot is supplied.
Demetrio (Galuppi, first setting)
A distinct setting or adaptation of Pietro Metastasio’s Demetrio libretto by Baldassare Galuppi. Galuppi’s first version premiered in Vienna in October 1748; the source gives either 16 or 27 October. No version-specific plot is supplied.
Demetrio (Giacomelli)
A distinct setting or adaptation of Pietro Metastasio’s Demetrio libretto by Geminiano Giacomelli. The source lists a Turin premiere during Carnival 1737 at Teatro Regio. No version-specific plot is supplied.
Demetrio (Giay)
A distinct setting or adaptation of Pietro Metastasio’s Demetrio libretto by Giovanni Antonio Giay. Performed during the 1732 Carnival at Teatro delle Dame in Rome; revived in Perugia in 1735. No version-specific plot is supplied.
Demetrio (Hasse)
A distinct setting or adaptation of Pietro Metastasio’s Demetrio libretto by Johann Adolph Hasse. Premiered on 10 February 1732 at Teatro San Giovanni Crisostomo, Venice; later reworked, including performances under the title Cleonice. No version-specific plot is supplied.
Demetrio (Leo, 1732)
A distinct setting or adaptation of Pietro Metastasio’s Demetrio libretto by Leonardo Leo. Leo’s first version premiered on 1 October 1732 at Teatro San Bartolomeo, Naples. No version-specific plot is supplied.
Demetrio (Leo, 1735)
A distinct setting or adaptation of Pietro Metastasio’s Demetrio libretto by Leonardo Leo. Leo’s second version premiered on 10 December 1735 at Teatro del Castello, Torremaggiore. No version-specific plot is supplied.
Demetrio (Perez, first setting)
A distinct setting or adaptation of Pietro Metastasio’s Demetrio libretto by Davide Perez. Perez’s first version premiered on 13 June 1741 at Teatro di Santa Cecilia, Palermo. No version-specific plot is supplied.
Demetrio (Pescetti)
A distinct setting or adaptation of Pietro Metastasio’s Demetrio libretto by Giovanni Battista Pescetti. Performed in Florence in December 1732; the source gives the date as possibly 26 December. No version-specific plot is supplied.
Demetrio (Schiassi)
A distinct setting or adaptation of Pietro Metastasio’s Demetrio libretto by Gaetano Maria Schiassi. Premiered on 28 August 1732 at Teatro Regio Ducale, Milan; later performed in Lisbon. No version-specific plot is supplied.
Demetrio e Polibio
Polybius, king of Parthia, protects his daughter Lisinga and her lover Siveno, whom all believe to be the son of a minister. Siveno is actually the long-lost son of Demetrius, king of Syria. Demetrius disguises himself as a messenger to reclaim Siveno, but when he enters the palace, he finds Lisinga alone and kidnaps her instead. Polybius and Siveno demand her release, while Demetrius threatens to kill her unless Siveno is handed over. An old medallion makes Demetrius recognize Siveno as his son. Demetrius reveals his identity, the prisoners are reunited and peace is restored.
Demetrio, Re di Siria
Simon Mayr’s last opera is an Italian setting of a revision of Pietro Metastasio’s 1732 libretto, previously set by Johann Adolph Hasse. The recorded roles include Alceste/Demetrio, Cleonice, Olinto, Barsene, Fenicio, and Mitrane.
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Demofonte
King Demofonte orders the sacrifice of Dircea, unaware she is secretly married to his son Timante. After revelations about the two young people’s parentage resolve the apparent incest, they can marry, while Timante yields the throne to his brother, who weds Creusa.
Demofoonte
Three-act Italian dramma per musica by Christoph Willibald Gluck, setting Pietro Metastasio’s libretto.
Demofoonte
King Demofoonte asks Apollo’s oracle when the annual sacrifice of a virgin will end. His secret daughter-in-law Dircea is imprisoned for fleeing the sacrifice, and revelations seem to make her and Timante siblings. A second letter reveals Timante is Matusio’s son, allowing him to marry Dircea and Cherinto to marry Creusa; the sacrifices end.
Demofoonte
King Demofoonte asks Apollo when the annual sacrifice of a virgin will end. Dircea, secretly married to Timante, is imprisoned for fleeing the sacrifice; revelations seem to make her and Timante siblings. A second letter reveals Timante is Matusio’s son, allowing him to marry Dircea while Cherinto marries Creusa and succeeds to the throne.
Demon
The Demon falls in love with Tamara, who is betrothed to Prince Sinodal. Sinodal is killed on the way to their wedding, and Tamara enters a convent; when the Demon follows and kisses her, she sees Sinodal’s ghost and dies. The Angel proclaims her redemption and condemns the Demon to eternal solitude.
Den Kongelige Gæst
In a doctor’s home in Jutland around 1900, Dr. Høyer and his wife prepare for a dress ball, but all their guests cancel at the last moment. Their unexpected visitor is the mysterious Prince Carnival, who plays the piano, talks with Dr. Høyer’s wife and encourages the couple to continue with the party.
Denis & Katya
Russian teenagers Denis Muravyov and Katerina Vlasova fall in love, flee home and hide at a relative’s house. A standoff with Russian special forces ends in a firefight and the teenagers’ deaths. The chamber opera retells the event through six witnesses’ accounts, news fragments, messages and role-play.
Der Barbier von Bagdad
Nureddin loves Margiana, daughter of the Cadi. With Bostana’s help, he is made presentable by Abdul Hassan, the barber, and enters the women’s quarters to court Margiana. A farcical series of disguises and hiding follows, including Nureddin being carried away in a treasure chest. The Caliph arrives, releases him, and betroths him to Margiana.
Der Besuch der alten Dame
The three-act opera adapts Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s play The Visit, with a German libretto by the playwright.
Der Bettelstudent
Colonel Ollendorf arranges for the penniless student Symon to pose as a wealthy nobleman so he can marry Laura Nowalska. They fall in love, but after their wedding Ollendorf reveals the deception and Symon is cast out. Symon’s friend Janicki reveals that he is a Polish officer involved in a plot to restore King Stanislaus. Symon impersonates a grand duke to help the plan succeed, and is ultimately accepted by Laura and her family.
Der Bäbu
Heinrich Marschner’s three-act comic opera adapts Augustus Prinsep’s book The Baboo and Other Tales Descriptive of Society in India. The available text does not provide plot details.
Der Bärenhäuter
After returning from the Thirty Years’ War, Hans Kraft loses a wager with Saint Peter and is punished by the devil: he must wear a bearskin, remain unwashed, and find a woman who stays faithful to him for three years. The youngest daughter Luise accepts half his ring and remains true despite his appearance. Hans is redeemed, escapes the devil, and returns to Luise after helping defend a castle from attack.
Der Corregidor
In an Andalusian village in 1804, miller Lukas overhears the Corregidor courting his wife Frasquita. Frasquita refuses the Corregidor’s advances, and when the man falls into the millstream she leaves to tell Lukas and the Corregidora what happened. Lukas sees the Corregidor’s clothes and a notary appointment, assumes Frasquita has been unfaithful, and goes to the Corregidor’s house disguised as him. The Corregidor is mistaken for Lukas in turn. The Corregidora sorts out the identities and the events, and Lukas and Frasquita reconcile.
Der Diktator
In a hotel beside Lake Geneva, the Dictator orders a declaration of war as Maria and his wife Charlotte watch. Maria learns from a blinded officer that the Dictator's forces used poison gas and vows to kill his commander. She confronts the Dictator with a revolver, but when Charlotte takes the weapon to shoot him, Maria steps in front and is killed; the Dictator, horrified, flees.
Der Dorfbarbier
A German-language stage adaptation of Philidor’s Blaise le savetier, with a new text by C. F. Weiße and music by Johann Adam Hiller.
Der Evangelimann
In 1820, Mathias loves Martha, foster daughter of magistrate Friedrich Engel. Mathias’s brother Johannes, jealous of Martha, starts an intrigue. After Mathias and Martha pledge fidelity, Johannes sets fire to the monastery, but Mathias is arrested for the crime. In 1850, Mathias has completed a twenty-year sentence and travels as a preacher. Martha has died, and Johannes, now rich but gravely ill, meets Mathias again. Mathias forgives him, allowing Johannes to die in peace.
Der Freischütz
To marry Agathe, Max must pass a shooting trial. His rival Kaspar persuades him to use magic bullets cast with help from Samiel, the Black Huntsman, who can guide the seventh bullet. At the trial, the bullet appears to strike Agathe but is deflected by her bridal wreath and the hermit, and kills Kaspar instead. Max confesses, and the prince bans him from marrying Agathe. The hermit persuades the prince to allow the marriage after Max completes a year of probation.
Der Goggolori
A children’s opera based on a Bavarian folk tale about conflict between paganism and Christianity during the Thirty Years’ War.
Der Golem
A three-act German opera by Eugen d’Albert based on Arthur Holitscher’s play about the Golem. A plot synopsis is not provided.
Der Graf von Gleichen
Schubert’s unfinished two-act opera based on a libretto by Eduard Bauernfeld.
Der Göttergatte
A German operetta by Franz Lehár, originally with a prelude and two acts. It was later revised under the titles Die ideale Gattin and Die Tangokönigin.
Der Jasager
During a mountain journey, a boy accompanying his teacher and fellow students falls ill. The group follows a custom that requires him to agree to being abandoned; his companion text, Der Neinsager, gives an alternative in which he refuses and asks that custom be reconsidered.
Der Jüngste Tag
A three-act German opera by Giselher Klebe and Lore Klebe based on Ödön von Horváth’s play of the same title.
Der Kaiser von Atlantis
Death goes on strike after the Emperor proclaims universal war and claims authority over life and death. In the resulting world, soldiers cannot kill and the suffering cannot die; Death agrees to return only if the Emperor becomes his first victim, and the Emperor accepts.
Der Kirschgarten
A four-act German-language opera based on Anton Chekhov’s play The Cherry Orchard.
Der Kreidekreis
After her family is impoverished by the tax collector Ma, Haitang is sold into a brothel and later becomes his second wife, bearing a son. Ma is poisoned by his first wife Yü-Pei, who frames Haitang and claims the child. Before Emperor Pao, both women must pull the child from a chalk circle; Haitang refuses to hurt him, revealing herself as his true mother. Pao learns the child is his and makes Haitang his wife.
Der Kuhhandel
In the fictional Caribbean country of Santa Maria, Juan’s cow is seized to pay taxes for a military arms deal, repeatedly thwarting his marriage to Juanita. After a coup and a failed parade, defective weapons undermine the war plans; Juan is pardoned, and the couple recover the cow and marry.
Der Kuhreigen
During the French Revolution, Swiss Sergeant Primus Thaller is condemned for singing the banned Swiss Kuhreigen folksong. Blanchefleur, wife of Marquis Massimelle, saves him, but she later becomes a victim of the Revolution.
Der König Kandaules
In ancient Lydia, King Kandaules wants to share his wealth and wife Nyssia with his favorites. A fisherman, Gyges, gains a ring of invisibility and secretly spends a night with the queen; after learning his identity, Nyssia orders him to kill the king and takes him as her successor.
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