Der Traum ein Leben
Walter Braunfels’s German-language operatic adaptation of Franz Grillparzer’s 1834 play, structured in three acts with prologue and epilogue.
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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.
Der Trompeter von Säckingen
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.
Der Tyroler Wastel
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.
Der Töpfer
Marthe hopes to win a lottery and tries to delay her daughter Hannchen’s marriage to Gürge, hoping to arrange a wealthier match.
Der Vampyr
A three-act romantic opera set in southern France and based on a story by Heinrich Ludwig Ritter.
Der Vampyr
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.
Der Vetter aus Dingsda
A German-language operetta based on a comedy by Max Kempner-Hochstädt.
Der Vogelhändler
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.
Der Waffenschmied
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.
Der Wald
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.
Der Widerspänstigen Zähmung
A four-act German comic opera based on Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew.
Der Wildschütz
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.
Der Zar lässt sich photographieren
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.
Der Zwerg
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.
Der arme Heinrich
A three-act opera based on Hartmann von Aue’s 12th-century narrative poem of the same name.
Der beglückte Florindo
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.
Der ferne Klang
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.
Der geduldige Socrates
A three-act German comic opera centered on Socrates.
Der gewaltige Hahnrei
An opera by Berthold Goldschmidt based on Fernand Crommelynck’s play Le Cocu Magnifique.
Der goldene Drache
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.
Der junge Lord
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.
Der langwierige Weg in die Wohnung der Natascha Ungeheuer
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.
Der letzte Walzer
A three-act Viennese operetta.
Der letzte Zauberer
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.
Der lustige Krieg
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.
Der neumodische Liebhaber Damon
A comic Arcadian opera in German in three acts, first performed in Leipzig and later revised for Hamburg.
Der schlimm-heilige Vitalis
A woman falls in love with the monk Vitalis and persuades him to leave his religious order and marry her.
Der singende Teufel
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.
Der vierjährige Posten
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.
Derby Day
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.
Des Matrosen Heimkehr
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.
Des Simplicius Simplicissimus Jugend
A German-language, three-act opera adapting Grimmelshausen’s picaresque novel, with the naïve shepherd boy Simplicius in the title role.
Desire Under the Elms
Edward Thomas’s American folk opera adapts Eugene O’Neill’s drama Desire Under the Elms, which in turn draws on Euripides’ Hippolytus.
Destiny
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.
Det guddommelige Tivoli
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.
Det sjungande trädet
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.
Deux Hommes et une femme
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.
Dialogues des Carmélites
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.
Diana von Solange
A German opera by Ernst II of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, an amateur composer. Its story is not documented in the available account.
Diane et Endymion
A three-act tragédie lyrique based on the goddess Diana’s love for the shepherd Endymion.
Dido and Aeneas
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
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.
Didon
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.
Didon
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.
Didone abbandonata
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.
Didone abbandonata
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.
Didone abbandonata
Leonardo Vinci’s Italian opera sets Metastasio’s libretto Didone abbandonata, previously set to music by Domenico Sarro in 1724.
Didone abbandonata
Johann Adolph Hasse’s Italian opera sets Metastasio’s libretto Didone abbandonata, a story also set by numerous other composers.
Didone abbandonata
A three-act Italian dramma per musica by Giuseppe Sarti, based on the story of Dido and Aeneas and set to Metastasio’s libretto.
Didone abbandonata
Baldassare Galuppi’s setting of Metastasio’s libretto Didone abbandonata includes the roles Didone, Enea, Selene, Araspe, Jarba, and Osmida.
Didone abbandonata
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.
Die Abreise
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.
Die Bakchantinnen
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.
Die Bernauerin
A Bavarian-dialect music-theatre work by Carl Orff about Agnes Bernauer.
Die Brautwahl
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.
Die Bürgschaft
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.
Die Dollarprinzessin
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.
Die Dorfschule
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.
Die Eifersüchtigen
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.
Die Ermordung Cäsars
A one-act opera by Giselher Klebe about the assassination of Julius Caesar, set in ancient Rome on the Ides of March.
Die Eroberung von Mexico
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.
Die Fastnachtsbeichte
A two-act opera by Giselher and Lore Klebe based on Carl Zuckmayer’s novella, set in Mainz in 1913.
Die Feen
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.
Die Fledermaus
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.
Die Frau ohne Schatten
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.
Die Freunde von Salamanka
A two-act German singspiel set in Salamanca, Spain, at the beginning of the 19th century.
Die Geisterinsel
A three-act German singspiel by Reichardt adapting Shakespeare’s The Tempest through Gotter’s libretto.
Die Gespenstersonate
Aribert Reimann’s German-language operatic adaptation of August Strindberg’s play The Ghost Sonata.
Die Gezeichneten
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.
Die Göttin der Vernunft
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.
Die Hamletmaschine
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.
Die Harmonie der Welt
Johannes Kepler serves Emperor Rudolf II, supports himself by casting horoscopes, and pursues a theory of universal harmony. He marries Susanne, faces religious conflict, and fights for six years to save his mother Katharina from a witchcraft accusation. Wallenstein later hires Kepler as his astrologer. As political turmoil grows under Ferdinand II and Swedish forces invade, the ailing Kepler warns the emperor’s electors in vain and dies. The characters’ roles as celestial bodies are reflected in the opera’s final vision of their ordered orbits.
Die Heimkehr aus der Fremde
A peddler impersonates the long-absent son of a village mayor to win the mayor’s ward. The true son returns in disguise, exposing the impostor and resolving the courtship.
Die Hochzeit
Ada is to marry Arindal in a political rather than romantic match. On the eve of the wedding, her lover Cadolt visits her. Ada rejects his advances to defend her honour but pushes him from a balcony, killing him. She still loves Cadolt and collapses and dies at his funeral beside his body.
Die Hochzeit des Camacho
Carrasco plans to marry his daughter Quiteria to Camacho against her wishes. Quiteria loves Basilio, who enlists Lucinda and Vivaldo to help him, though Don Quixote’s eccentric behavior upsets their schemes. Basilio pretends to stab himself and asks to marry Quiteria before dying. Once the ceremony is complete, he recovers, and Camacho accepts defeat.
Die Jagd
Farmer Michel will not let his daughter Röschen marry Töffel until the disappearance of his son Christel’s fiancée, Hännchen, is explained. Hännchen returns and says Count Schmetterling kidnapped her. A storm forces the king’s hunting party to shelter at Michel’s house. Hännchen recognizes the king’s huntsman as the count, and the king reveals his identity, banishes the count, and rewards Michel and his family.
Die Kalewainen in Pochjola
A four-act German-language opera freely based on the Kalevala, using Finnish mythic characters and motifs. Its acts are titled The Proposal to the Bride, The Sampo, Resurrecting Ahti, and The Fight for Luck.
Die Kathrin
In 1930, Kathrin and the singer François fall in love before his regiment is sent to Algiers. Pregnant and searching for him, she is lured toward Marseille by nightclub owner Malignac. When he tries to assault her, Monique shoots him with François’s pistol; Kathrin and François each believe the other committed the killing and take the blame.
Die Kinder der Heide
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.
Die Kluge
A poor peasant finds a golden mortar and is imprisoned after his wise daughter predicts that the king will suspect him of stealing its pestle. The daughter solves the king’s riddles and becomes his queen. When she exposes his foolish judgment in a dispute over a young donkey, he orders her to leave; she drugs him and carries him away in a box, and he recognizes her wisdom.
Die Königin von Saba
Assad returns from a diplomatic mission in love with a mysterious woman who proves to be the Queen of Sheba. Though he is betrothed to Sulamith, the queen continues to treat him as a stranger; in despair, Assad blasphemes and is banished to the desert. He rejects the queen’s attempt to take him away, then dies in a sandstorm after Sulamith forgives him.
Die Laune des Verliebten
The source describes the project as based on Goethe’s play Die Laune des Verliebten, but it provides no plot for Wagner’s abandoned opera project.
Die Liebe der Danae
Danae’s father Pollux seeks a wealthy husband for her, and Midas arrives to woo her. Midas is actually disguised as his own servant; Jupiter, pursuing Danae, impersonates Midas. At the wedding Jupiter forces Midas to take his place, but Danae turns to gold when she embraces him. She is restored to life and chooses the mortal Midas. Though Jupiter curses them with poverty and later tries once more to win Danae, he finally accepts her choice.
Die Loreley
German-language opera by Max Bruch to a libretto by Emanuel Geibel.
Die Maccabäer
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.
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
In sixteenth-century Nuremberg, young knight Walther von Stolzing falls in love with Eva Pogner, whose father has promised her to the winner of the mastersingers’ song contest. Walther fails to qualify, but Hans Sachs recognizes his talent and helps him shape a new song. Beckmesser mistakenly takes the song for Sachs’s, then fails in the contest; Walther sings it successfully and wins Eva. Sachs blesses the couple and celebrates the mastersingers’ art.
Die Opernprobe
During an improvised opera rehearsal at a count’s palace, the servants perform while Hannchen conducts. A nobleman who fled an arranged marriage falls in love with Louise; after a series of complications, he discovers that she is the bride his uncle had intended for him.
Die Prinzessin Girnara
Two-act mystery opera structured as parallel scenes: a world play and a legend, based on an Indian legend. The roles include Buddha, Princess Girnara, Prince Siho, and demons; no further plot is supplied.
Die Rheinnixen
During the sixteenth-century Knights’ War, Armgard’s lover Franz joins mercenaries and loses his memory. Her mother Hedwig discovers that the mercenary leader Conrad is Armgard’s father; with help from elves, the family and their community survive the conflict.
Die Rose vom Liebesgarten
Hans Pfitzner’s German-language opera, prompted by Hans Thoma’s painting Der Wächter vor dem Liebesgarten.
Die Räuber
A four-act German opera by Giselher Klebe based on Friedrich Schiller’s play The Robbers, set in mid-eighteenth-century Germany.
Die Räuberbraut
Laura’s father, the Count of Viterbo, is driven into exile after a political betrayal. Bandit chief Roberto agrees to rescue him if Laura marries him. Roberto saves the Count but later releases Laura to Fernando, who loves her. When the usurper falls, the Count is freed; Roberto dies after a duel, and Laura marries Fernando.
Die Schneekönigin
A German-language children’s fairy-tale opera based on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen, written for soloists and a children’s chorus that also acts.
Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots
This sacred Singspiel centers on an allegorical encounter between a wavering Christian and figures representing Christian spirit, divine mercy, divine justice, and worldliness. Mozart’s surviving Part I unfolds through recitatives, arias, and a concluding trio for mercy, justice, and Christian spirit. The remaining two parts of the original three-part work are lost.
Die Schule der Frauen
Rolf Liebermann’s operatic adaptation of Molière’s The School for Wives, first performed as a one-act English-language version and later expanded into a three-act German version.
Die Schweizer Familie
The Boll family has been banished to an unspecified region in the Alps. Their daughter Emmeline longs for Jakob, to whom she is secretly engaged. The local count, whose life was once saved by Richard Boll, takes pity on her and helps reunite Emmeline and Jakob.
Die Sieger
In Wagner’s fragmentary prose sketch, the outcast Prakriti loves the monk Ānanda. Though ostracized by the other monks, they are permitted a chaste union by Buddha, and Prakriti joins the monastic community.
Die Soldaten
Marie, a merchant’s daughter, leaves her fiancé Stolzius for the officer Desportes, who abandons and exploits her. As Marie’s life collapses, Stolzius joins Desportes as a servant, poisons him, and dies himself; Marie becomes a beggar, while the opera’s final vision depicts the collective violence of the army and society.
Die Stadt hinter dem Strom
Hans Vogt’s first opera adapts Hermann Kasack’s dystopian novel into a three-act oratorio-opera. It was conceived for radio before Vogt revised it for the stage; the source describes the underlying work as a ruined city populated by humanlike figures who behave like puppets, confronting the horrors of the world wars.
Die Stechardin
A one-woman opera about Maria Dorothea Stechard, the young beloved of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. In four scenes she recounts her backstory, love, illness and death, and expresses a wish to meet her lover again after death.
Die Verlobung in San Domingo
An opera by Werner Egk based on a work by Heinrich von Kleist.
Die Verschworenen
A one-act German singspiel by Franz Schubert based on a libretto adapting François-Benoît Hoffman’s play after Aristophanes’ Lysistrata.
Die Verurteilung des Lukullus
Paul Dessau’s German-language opera with a libretto by Bertolt Brecht was revised after its first performance and reinstated under this title.
Die Vögel
Two disillusioned men persuade the birds to build a fortified city in the clouds, where Loyal Friend seeks power. Prometheus warns them against challenging the gods, but the birds defy Zeus and their citadel is destroyed by a storm. Good Hope, moved by his encounter with the Nightingale, returns to the human city.
Die Walküre
Siegmund seeks shelter in Hunding’s house and discovers that Hunding’s wife Sieglinde is his twin sister. They fall in love, and Siegmund draws the sword Nothung from an ash tree. Wotan orders Brünnhilde to protect Siegmund, but Fricka demands punishment for the twins’ union; Wotan reverses his command, and Siegmund dies in battle. Brünnhilde helps the pregnant Sieglinde escape with the sword fragments. Wotan punishes Brünnhilde by placing her in a fire-ringed sleep, where only a fearless hero can reach her.
Die Zaubergeige
A German-language opera by Werner Egk based on a work by Count Franz Pocci.
Die Zwillingsbrüder
On Lieschen’s eighteenth birthday, her father must honor an old agreement allowing veteran Franz Spiess to marry her. Franz’s twin Friedrich also returns, each believing the other died in war. The villagers mistake the brothers for one another until they finally meet, and Lieschen is free to marry Anton.
Die beiden Kalifen
Giacomo Meyerbeer’s two-act German opera adapts a tale from the Arabian Nights. It was first performed in Stuttgart under the title Wirt und Gast, oder Aus Scherz Ernst; the available text does not summarize the plot.
Die beiden Neffen
In 1780s Brandenburg, Baron von Felsig returns unexpectedly from New England. Mistaken identities and misunderstandings lead to a traditional happy ending.
Die blaue Mazur
Viennese Countess Blanka von Lossin leaves her husband, Polish Count Olinski, after his infidelity and seeks happiness elsewhere. The spouses eventually realize they belong together.
Die drei Pintos
On his way to marry a woman he has never met, the foolish Don Pinto is tricked into drunken sleep by student Don Gaston, who takes his marriage letter. Gaston and Pinto each impersonate the bridegroom, while Clarissa and her true love Gomez struggle against the arranged marriage. The real Pinto is ultimately exposed and expelled, allowing Clarissa and Gomez to marry.
Die ersten Menschen
After the expulsion from paradise, Adahm and Chawa face marital conflict while their sons Kajin and Chabel both desire their mother. The opera frames the biblical family story as psychological drama.
Die glückliche Hand
A man sings of his love for a woman, who leaves him for a gentleman. When she returns he forgives her, but the cycle repeats: she leaves again, rejects his pleas, and kicks a rock at him. The rock becomes the monster first seen on his back, returning the drama to its opening struggle.
Die heilige Ente: ein Spiel mit Göttern und Menschen
Bored Chinese gods amuse themselves by exchanging the identities of duck-breeder Yang and a mandarin. The mandarin sentences Yang to death after a duck is stolen; in the exchanged bodies, Yang commutes the sentence and mocks the gods. The gods reverse the exchange. When the duck returns, the mandarin considers it a miracle and offers Yang nobility, but Yang chooses to seek his fortune elsewhere.
Die helle Nacht
An opera by Richard Flury based on Paul Zifferer’s 1912 verse play of the same name.
Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor
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.
Die schwarze Maske
The source lists the principal characters as Silvanus Schuller, Benigna, Arabella, Rosa Sacchi, Jedidja Potter, François Tortebat and others.
Die schweigsame Frau
Retired naval captain Sir Morosus disinherits his nephew Henry after learning that Henry’s wife Aminta is an opera singer. The barber devises a sham marriage so Morosus will abandon his plan to wed. Disguised as the quiet bride Timidia, Aminta marries him, then becomes noisily impossible. When a mock divorce fails, the troupe reveals the deception. Morosus laughs, blesses Henry and Aminta’s union, and restores Henry as his heir.
Die sizilianische Vesper
A German opera by Peter Josef von Lindpaintner concerning the Sicilian Vespers. The plot is not described in the entry.
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