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Clear filtersIn 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.
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.
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.
The three-act opera adapts Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s play The Visit, with a German libretto by the playwright.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A children’s opera based on a Bavarian folk tale about conflict between paganism and Christianity during the Thirty Years’ War.
A three-act German opera by Eugen d’Albert based on Arthur Holitscher’s play about the Golem. A plot synopsis is not provided.
Schubert’s unfinished two-act opera based on a libretto by Eduard Bauernfeld.
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.
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.
A three-act German opera by Giselher Klebe and Lore Klebe based on Ödön von Horváth’s play of the same title.
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.
A four-act German-language opera based on Anton Chekhov’s play The Cherry Orchard.
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.
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.
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.
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.
York Höller’s two-act German opera adapts Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel The Master and Margarita.
A German-language opera based on Roland Topor’s novel Le locataire chimérique.
Four rascals steal the Moon for their moonless country and take it with them to their graves. Saint Peter descends to the underworld, retrieves the Moon, and hangs it again in the sky.
During Carnival in Paris, Marguérite and Angèle test their husbands’ fidelity by arranging masked meetings at an opera ball with ladies wearing pink dominoes. The husbands mistake one another and the chambermaid Hortense for their intended partners. Back home, confusion escalates toward a duel until the wives reveal their intact dominoes and Hortense’s part is exposed.
Prince Friedrich dreams of Princess Natalie during preparations for battle and attacks prematurely, though his cavalry succeeds. The Elector arrests him for disobedience and expects to ratify a death sentence. Natalie frees Friedrich, while the Elector decides to pardon him; at the supposed execution, he instead grants Friedrich her hand.
This one-act German Literaturoper by Kurt Weill is based on Georg Kaiser's 1920 play The Protagonist.
Bank clerk Josef K. is arrested without being told the charge. As he encounters an opaque court system and tries to secure help, the trial increasingly overwhelms him; in the final scene, two men lead him to a quarry and kill him.
In thirteenth-century Hamelin, rat-catcher Hunold Singuf rids the town of rats but is not properly rewarded. He then lures away all the children, who disappear.
Chimney sweep Volpino and cook Lisel scheme to obtain a dowry from their wealthy social betters. Volpino charms Frau von Habicht and her stepdaughter with music, then persuades the noblemen pursuing them to pay him to undo the women’s infatuation.
A five-act comic opera based on Nikolai Gogol’s play The Government Inspector.
Alberich steals Rhine gold and forges a ring that grants world-dominating power. Wotan takes the ring to pay the giants for building Valhalla, setting off a multigenerational struggle to control it. Siegfried wins the ring but is betrayed and killed by Hagen. Brünnhilde returns the ring to the Rhine and dies on Siegfried’s pyre; fire destroys Valhalla, and the Rhinemaidens drown Hagen as they reclaim the gold.
Wilhelm Arndt seems to have everything: a happy marriage, a new post as court music director, and an inheritance. His returning friend Peter Vogel envies his good fortune and urges him to sacrifice something to appease fate. Wilhelm’s resulting argument with Laura subsides, and the couple decide that Vogel, the intriguer, must leave.
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.
In Vienna, the Marschallin’s young lover Octavian is asked to serve as the Knight of the Rose for her cousin Baron Ochs, who is engaged to Sophie von Faninal. When Octavian presents Sophie with a silver rose, they fall in love. Sophie refuses to marry Ochs, and Octavian helps her devise a scheme to break the engagement. Ochs is caught in a compromising situation and leaves in disgrace. The Marschallin recognizes that Octavian loves Sophie and lets him go; the young couple reunites.
The minstrel Elis is enlisted to recover the queen’s lost jewels. Innkeeper’s daughter Els, desperate to escape a forced marriage, arranges the murder of her suitor and sends Elis to find the jewels; after he is accused, she helps secure his release. The fool saves Els from execution by claiming her as his promised wife, but a year later she dies, consoled by Elis’s song.
Impresario Frank auditions singers for his new company, assisted by the buffo singer Buff. He hires Madame Herz and Mademoiselle Silberklang, who then quarrel over which of them will receive the leading role and the higher salary. Each performs an aria to demonstrate her talent. Tenor Vogelsang brokers a compromise, and the company joins in a finale celebrating the artists’ pursuit of fame.
In wartime Ghent, blacksmith Smee loses his trade after being denounced for opposing Spanish rule. On the verge of drowning himself, he accepts seven years of wealth in return for his soul. As the pact nears its end, he repairs a donkey’s shoe for a poor family who prove to be Joseph, Mary, and Jesus. Joseph grants him three wishes, which Smee uses to outwit Hell’s emissaries. After Lucifer appears, the forge vanishes. At death Smee is rejected by both Hell and Heaven, so he opens a food stall for the dead. His wife intercedes with Joseph, who weighs Smee’s good and bad deeds and admits him to Paradise.
A German opera by Friedrich Lux to a libretto by Ludwig C. Bauer. Its plot is not summarized in the available record.
A bird-man born from an egg is rejected by his family and sent on adventures. He becomes a nightwatchman for the Emperor of Mesopotamia and falls in love with the Flying Princess. After rivals wage war against him, he wins her; she briefly elopes with a Dutchman, then returns and follows him to a new land.
A German-language opera that parodies Expressionism and psychoanalysis and includes jazz elements.
A two-act Singspiel based on a fairy tale from Christoph Martin Wieland’s Dschinnistan.
Frank Martin’s German-language opera is based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest, using the German translation by August Wilhelm Schlegel and Ludwig Tieck. The reviewed entry does not provide a separate synopsis.
A three-act romantic opera set in late twelfth-century England, based through intermediate adaptations on Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe.
Nimrod and the Master Builder celebrate their attempt to reach heaven with a tower. Abraham rebukes them and is condemned to a fiery furnace; angels then destroy the tower, leaving Nimrod and the workers confused as angels and demons each claim victory.
Walter Braunfels’s German-language operatic adaptation of Franz Grillparzer’s 1834 play, structured in three acts with prologue and epilogue.
Görge abandons his arranged marriage to pursue a dream of a princess. Years later, living in poverty with Gertraud, he refuses to abandon her when villagers ask him to lead a revolt; the couple escape a mob and eventually return to his home village, where their life fulfills his earlier dream.
In seventeenth-century Heidelberg and Säckingen, trumpeter Werner loves Maria, but her parents want her to marry the cowardly Damian. Werner proves himself a hero and is discovered to be of noble birth, allowing the couple to marry.
In 18th-century Vienna, Frau von Tiefsinn mistakes gifts sent by baker Joseph to her stepdaughter Louise as a romantic gesture from her own lover, Tulippan, but the confusion is resolved and Louise’s father approves her match with Joseph. His brother Wastel, a farmer from Tyrol, arrives with his wife Liesel and disrupts the household with his rough manners. At a Prater pub, Wastel’s songs provoke the party before a storm sends everyone home. The next morning, Wastel thwarts efforts to remove him. Frau von Tiefsinn tries to arrange Louise’s marriage to an imperial accountant, but Wastel helps Louise marry Joseph. Liesel rejects the accountant’s proposal, and Frau von Tiefsinn reconciles with her husband. Wastel gives the couple money for Louise’s dowry, and the household celebrates.
Marthe hopes to win a lottery and tries to delay her daughter Hannchen’s marriage to Gürge, hoping to arrange a wealthier match.
A three-act romantic opera set in southern France and based on a story by Heinrich Ludwig Ritter.
Lord Ruthven must sacrifice three virgin brides within a day to gain another year of life. After killing Janthe, he pursues Malwina while her lover Aubry is bound by an oath not to reveal Ruthven’s identity. Aubry exposes the vampire as the wedding begins; Ruthven is struck by lightning, and Malwina is free to marry Aubry.
A German-language operetta based on a comedy by Max Kempner-Hochstädt.
Bird-seller Adam and postmistress Christel are engaged but unable to live together. A series of mistaken identities at the Elector’s court, including officer Stanislaus impersonating the Elector, causes Adam to break with Christel. When the deception is exposed, the lovers reconcile, while the master of the hunt marries Adelaide; the court and Tyroleans celebrate together.
Count Liebenau loves Marie, daughter of armourer Stadinger, but disguises himself as the journeyman blacksmith Konrad so she will love him without regard to his rank. Stadinger mistrusts Konrad and tries to marry Marie to someone else. Liebenau stages a kidnapping and uses further deceptions to win Stadinger’s consent; when his identity is revealed, Stadinger is angered but finally blesses the couple.
Forest spirits begin a ritual celebrating their timelessness, then fade as a village celebration starts. Röschen is engaged to woodcutter Heinrich. Iolanthe, the feared mistress of Count Rudolf, is attracted to Heinrich and tries to bring him into the castle. He rejects her, remaining loyal to Röschen. A peddler accuses Heinrich of killing a deer, giving Iolanthe leverage. Heinrich chooses deathless, powerful life over weak, brief life, and Iolanthe orders him killed. The forest spirits resume their interrupted ritual.
A four-act German comic opera based on Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew.
Schoolmaster Baculus is dismissed for hunting on the Count’s land, threatening his engagement to Gretchen. At the Count’s birthday gathering, both the Count and Baron Kronthal pursue Gretchen, while the Baroness disguises herself as a student and helps Baculus. A series of mistaken identities is finally resolved; Baculus and Gretchen reunite, and he regains his post. Baculus also discovers that he had shot his own donkey rather than a deer.
In a Paris photographic studio, the proprietor Angèle learns that the Tsar is coming to have his portrait taken. Revolutionaries seize the studio and disguise members of their gang as Angèle and her staff, hiding a gun in the camera to kill the Tsar; after the police arrive, the gang escapes, and the Tsar finally has his photograph taken by the real staff.
At the Infanta Donna Clara’s birthday party, a sultan’s gift of a dwarf arrives. Unaware of his appearance, he falls in love with her and imagines himself her knight. The Infanta gives him a white rose, which he takes as a sign of affection. After seeing his reflection in a mirror, he asks her for love and a kiss; she rejects him as a monster, and he dies as the party continues.
A three-act opera based on Hartmann von Aue’s 12th-century narrative poem of the same name.
At a festival honoring Phoebus, the god falls in love with Daphne, who is promised to Florindo. Alfirena and Lycoris also love Florindo, while Damon loves Lycoris. Daphne and Florindo obtain their fathers’ consent to marry, and their wedding is celebrated with Phoebus joining the festivities.
Fritz leaves Grete to pursue the mysterious sound he hopes to capture in music. Years later, after Grete has become a courtesan, they meet again but separate; when Fritz’s opera fails and he grows ill, they are reunited, and he finally hears the sound before dying in her arms.
A three-act German comic opera centered on Socrates.
An opera by Berthold Goldschmidt based on Fernand Crommelynck’s play Le Cocu Magnifique.
In a Chinese restaurant, an undocumented young cook with toothache is treated in the kitchen and bleeds to death. A stewardess finds his tooth in her soup and carries it on a trip to China.
Sir Edgar, an aloof English gentleman, arrives in a German town with an entourage and animals, then invites a circus troupe into his mansion. Months later, his nephew Lord Barrat is presented to the townspeople, who imitate his eccentric behavior. At a dance, Barrat’s clothes fall away and reveal him to be a trained ape.
A leftist intellectual is lured toward Natascha Ungeheuer’s apartment, a “siren of a false Utopia.” He resists going all the way to her apartment but has not yet found a path to revolution. The allegory satirizes people who preach socialist values while retaining a bourgeois lifestyle.
A three-act Viennese operetta.
Old sorcerer Krakamiche lives with his daughter Stella in a forest troubled by elves. The Queen of the Elves helps Prince Lelio approach Stella; after tricks and a failed spell, Krakamiche consents to their marriage and agrees to leave the forest.
In the garrisoned Mediterranean city of Massa in the early eighteenth century, a dispute between two states becomes a game of love between Genoese commander Colonel Umberto Spinola and the widowed Countess Violetta. Despite the title, the operetta’s “war” involves no fighting or bloodshed.
A comic Arcadian opera in German in three acts, first performed in Leipzig and later revised for Hamburg.
A woman falls in love with the monk Vitalis and persuades him to leave his religious order and marry her.
Young organ-builder Amandus refuses to complete the great organ that drove his father mad. Lilian, who loves him, asks him to lead pagans in their spring rites, but he commits to Christianity. The pagan knight Sinbrand abducts Lilian after Amandus refuses a duel; Father Kaleidos rescues Amandus. Amandus becomes a monk and completes the organ, hoping its music will pacify the pagans. When they lay down their weapons, Kaleidos orders them slaughtered. Weeks later, Lilian tends the broken Amandus. She burns the monastery to break his despair; the organ produces heavenly sounds, Amandus is transformed, and Lilian dies.
A one-act German singspiel by Franz Schubert to a libretto by Theodor Körner, originally written for Carl Steinacker’s opera of the same title.
Set in the early 1930s, the story follows events on the day of the Epsom Derby. In the final act, Mr. Bitter proposes to Mrs. Bones.
In a Dalmatian port, sailor Pietro seeks to leave the navy after twenty years at sea. Mayor Quirino wants young Nicolò conscripted so he can pursue his ward Jela. Pietro recognizes Jela as the daughter of his former lover and reenlists in Nicolò’s place.
A German-language, three-act opera adapting Grimmelshausen’s picaresque novel, with the naïve shepherd boy Simplicius in the title role.
Edward Thomas’s American folk opera adapts Eugene O’Neill’s drama Desire Under the Elms, which in turn draws on Euripides’ Hippolytus.
Composer Živný and Míla were once lovers, but Míla’s mother separated them. They meet again at a spa and rekindle their relationship. Four years later, they are married and reading Živný’s unfinished opera, which portrays Míla as unfaithful. Her mother, whose mental state has deteriorated, rushes toward a balcony; Míla tries to restrain her, and both fall to their deaths. Eleven years later, Živný rehearses the still unfinished opera with his students, relives his love for Míla, and collapses before the ending is written.
Per Nørgård’s opera portrays the life of Swiss artist Adolf Wölfli, from his harsh upbringing to the asylum where he spent 30 years producing artwork.
Prince Hatt is imprisoned underground by his aunt, the Witch, and rescued by an unnamed Princess. They first communicate through the song ‘The Tree of Life’, which both hear in dreams. The Witch is destroyed by the power of light and the couple unite, but the Princess is blinded by the Witch’s dying curse.
Rita runs an inn with her timid husband Peppe when Gaspar, her first husband, unexpectedly returns, believed drowned. Gaspar wants a death certificate so he can remarry, while Peppe hopes to escape Rita; the two men play a game to decide who must remain with her. Gaspar manipulates the result so Peppe declares his love, and he leaves the reconciled couple together.
During the French Revolution, Blanche de la Force enters a Carmelite convent, where the nuns confront fear, persecution, and the question of martyrdom. They are arrested and condemned to death; Blanche returns to join them as they process to the guillotine singing the Salve Regina.
A German opera by Ernst II of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, an amateur composer. Its story is not documented in the available account.
A three-act tragédie lyrique based on the goddess Diana’s love for the shepherd Endymion.
Queen Dido accepts Aeneas’s love, but a Sorceress sends a disguised messenger to make him leave Carthage. Aeneas returns to explain, yet Dido rejects his offer to stay after learning he had considered departing. She sings “When I am laid in Earth” and dies.
Dido, queen of Carthage, loves Aeneas but refuses to marry Iarbas. Aeneas leaves for Italy after his father’s ghost reminds him of his duty; as Carthage is besieged, Dido dies amid the flames.
Betrothed to Iarbe but preparing to marry Énée, Didon faces the consequences when Jupiter forces Énée to leave for Italy. After their farewell, the gods turn against Carthage; Didon loses hope, becomes insane and dies by suicide.
Dido falls in love with the shipwrecked Trojan Aeneas, though she is promised to the African king Iarbas. After Aeneas defeats Iarbas, the ghost of his father Anchises tells him to leave for Italy. Heartbroken, Dido kills herself on a funeral pyre, and the Carthaginians swear revenge on Aeneas’s Roman descendants.
Dido, queen of Carthage, loves Aeneas but refuses to marry Iarbas. Aeneas leaves for Italy after his father’s ghost reminds him of his duty; Dido dies on a funeral pyre as the Trojans sail away.
Dido, queen of Carthage, loves Aeneas but refuses to marry Iarbas. After Aeneas defeats Iarbas, Dido persuades him to stay; his father’s ghost recalls him to his duty, and Dido dies as he sails for Italy.
Leonardo Vinci’s Italian opera sets Metastasio’s libretto Didone abbandonata, previously set to music by Domenico Sarro in 1724.
Johann Adolph Hasse’s Italian opera sets Metastasio’s libretto Didone abbandonata, a story also set by numerous other composers.
A three-act Italian dramma per musica by Giuseppe Sarti, based on the story of Dido and Aeneas and set to Metastasio’s libretto.
Baldassare Galuppi’s setting of Metastasio’s libretto Didone abbandonata includes the roles Didone, Enea, Selene, Araspe, Jarba, and Osmida.
A two-act opera by Saverio Mercadante to Andrea Leone Tottola’s libretto after Metastasio’s Didone abbandonata. The characters include Dido, Aeneas, Jarba, and their confidants. No plot description is available in the reviewed text.
Gilfen and Luise’s marriage has lost its passion. Gilfen has repeatedly postponed a planned journey because he fears his wife will be unfaithful. Their friend Trott, who loves Luise, urges Gilfen to leave. Gilfen guesses Trott’s motive and pretends to depart. Trott seizes the chance to declare his love, but Luise rejects him. Gilfen returns, delighted by his wife’s fidelity; Trott leaves, and Gilfen and Luise decide to renew their love.
Based on Euripides’ The Bacchae, the opera depicts the punishment of Pentheus by the maenads, followers of Dionysus. Wellesz described Dionysus’s ability to gather and drive the people to madness as a warning against political seduction by Hitler and his followers.
A Bavarian-dialect music-theatre work by Carl Orff about Agnes Bernauer.
Artist Edmund loves Albertine but faces several rivals, including the revenant Manasse, his son Baron Bensch, and bureaucrat Thusman. A trial involving three caskets finally decides the bridal choice in Edmund’s favor.
A money-driven dictatorship rises to power, bringing greed and destruction. The story explores bonds among individuals, their community, the law, the state, and government.
Leo Fall’s German operetta uses a libretto by Alfred Maria Willner and Fritz Grünbaum, adapted from a comedy by Emerich von Gatti and Thilo Friedrich Wilhelm von Trotha.
Samurai Matsuōmaru learns that his feudal lord's son is the target of a plot. He sends his own son to the village school in the boy's place; his son dies, fulfilling the family's duty to its lord.
The three-act comic opera is set in Florence in 1555 and includes references to Rossini, Mozart and commedia dell’arte. The entry does not give its plot.
A one-act opera by Giselher Klebe about the assassination of Julius Caesar, set in ancient Rome on the Ides of March.
Cortez arrives in Mexico intending to conquer it, while Montezuma foresees disaster. Their attempts to communicate fail, and Montezuma becomes increasingly disturbed. After Montezuma dies, Cortez dreams before his statue; the funeral sparks a massacre between Aztecs and Spaniards. When everyone is dead, Cortez and Montezuma sing together for the first time.
A two-act opera by Giselher and Lore Klebe based on Carl Zuckmayer’s novella, set in Mainz in 1913.
Ada, a half-fairy, gives up immortality to live with Arindal, but the fairy king sets a condition: she must keep her identity secret for eight years, then torment Arindal on the final day. When she appears to destroy their children and betray his kingdom, Arindal curses her. The curse turns Ada to stone and drives Arindal toward madness. He journeys through guarded portals with a sword, shield, and lyre, ultimately freeing Ada by playing the lyre. The fairy king grants Arindal immortality, and he and Ada rule the fairyland while Arindal’s mortal kingdom passes to Lora and Morald.
Viennese man-about-town Gabriel von Eisenstein postpones serving an eight-day prison sentence to attend a ball hosted by Prince Orlofsky. His wife Rosalinde, maid Adele and prison governor Frank also attend in disguise. Rosalinde poses as a Hungarian countess and takes Eisenstein’s watch as evidence of his attempted infidelity. The next morning, the guests gather at the prison, where Eisenstein learns that Falke orchestrated the evening as revenge for an earlier practical joke; the champagne is blamed and the couple reconciles.
The Empress, daughter of the spirit king Keikobad, has no shadow. Unless she obtains one, her father will reclaim her and her husband, the Emperor, will turn to stone. She and her Nurse descend to the human world and try to obtain the Dyer’s Wife’s shadow. The Empress refuses to take it at the cost of the other woman’s future happiness. She receives a shadow of her own, the Emperor is restored, and the Dyer and his Wife reunite.
A two-act German singspiel set in Salamanca, Spain, at the beginning of the 19th century.
A three-act German singspiel by Reichardt adapting Shakespeare’s The Tempest through Gotter’s libretto.
Aribert Reimann’s German-language operatic adaptation of August Strindberg’s play The Ghost Sonata.
In sixteenth-century Genoa, the deformed nobleman Alviano offers the people his island estate, unaware that his friends use its grotto for abductions and orgies. Carlotta falls in love with him but is seduced by Tamare; when Alviano discovers her with Tamare, he kills him, and Carlotta dies calling for her assailant.
In 1794 Châlons, caricaturist Jacquelin and folk singer Ernestine seek passports to escape. A countess also wants to flee, so she pretends to be Ernestine while the real Ernestine returns with authority from the National Convention and appoints Bonhomme as a delegate. Amid mistaken identities and rivalries, Bonhomme protects the countess and Jacquelin, and Ernestine distracts the others by performing as the Goddess of Reason. Ernestine gives her and Jacquelin’s passports to the countess and Captain Robert; the three couples marry.
A five-part music-theatre work for actors, singers, speaking voices, choir and orchestra, based on Heiner Müller’s play Die Hamletmaschine. The work uses spatial sound and ritualistic, nonnarrative drama.
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