Frau Margot
An English-language three-act opera by Thomas Pasatieri, with a libretto by Frank Corsaro based on Corsaro’s play Lyric Suite. Its roles include the former diva Frau Margot, a composer, her companion, agent and a detective.
Operas
3280 shows
Clear filtersFredegundis
A three-act German opera about Fredegund, widow of sixth-century French king Chilperic I, adapted from Felix Dahn’s novel. The entry does not describe the dramatic plot.
Frederick Douglass
Moore's biographical opera about Frederick Douglass takes the form of musical meditations on love, death, religion, political oppression, and deliverance. Its plot includes Douglass's second marriage, the collapse of the Freedman's Savings Bank, and his mission to Haiti.
Frederick Douglass
A semi-fictionalized account of Frederick Douglass’s final years after his marriage to Helen Pitts Douglass.
Freedom Child
Evelyn La Rue Pittman’s opera was written in memory of Martin Luther King Jr. The available text gives no plot or performance details.
Freitag aus Licht
In a layered retelling of creation, Eve agrees to unite with Caino, leading to conflict among their children. She repents, and the opera’s dancer couples transform through partner exchanges into hybrid figures that join in an ascending candle spiral.
Freshwater
A two-act chamber opera based on Virginia Woolf’s comic play Freshwater.
Frida
The opera is based on the life of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. The entry gives no specific plot or dramatic episodes.
Friedenstag
During the final day of the Thirty Years’ War, the commandant of a besieged town refuses the townspeople’s plea to surrender and prepares to destroy the fortress rather than yield. His wife Maria stays with him. When the opposing commander arrives to announce the armistice, the two leaders nearly fight, but Maria intervenes and they embrace in reconciliation.
From the House of the Dead
In a Siberian prison camp, political prisoner Goryanchikov is flogged and befriends the young Alyeya, whom he teaches to read and write. The prisoners recount episodes from their pasts and stage plays; Goryanchikov is eventually pardoned and released.
From the Towers of the Moon
A princess from the Moon comes to Earth and falls in love with an emperor, encountering human emotions before eventually returning to the Moon. The work adapts the Japanese tale of Princess Kaguya, also known as The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter.
Frédégonde
A five-act French drame lyrique based on Augustin Thierry’s accounts of the Merovingian period, featuring the queens Brunhilda and Frédégonde and King Hilpérik.
Fête Galante
During a late-night fête involving aristocrats and a commedia dell’arte troupe, mistaken identities and disguises entangle desire and jealousy. A jealous king has the Pierrot hanged.
Fête galante
A Danish-language comic opera by Poul Schierbeck.
Gabriella di Vergy
Gabriella marries Fayel after being told that her beloved Raoul has died. Raoul returns alive, but Fayel kills him in a duel and presents Gabriella with his heart. She loses her sanity and dies.
Gabrielle d'Estrées, ou Les amours d'Henri IV de France
Méhul's three-act opera concerns the love affair of King Henri IV of France and Gabrielle d'Estrées. It was removed from the repertoire after its sixth performance; accounts differ over whether this was due to the work's weakness or political reasons.
Galahad
An unperformed four-scene music drama about Galahad, one of the separately titled works in Boughton’s Arthurian cycle.
Galileo Galilei
As an old, blind man, Galileo recalls his life in reverse. He faces the Church over his claim that Earth revolves around the Sun, appears at trial, and revisits his writing, experiments, and conversations with Cardinal Barberini. Letters from his daughter Maria Celeste reveal their bond. Galileo presents his telescope to the Duchess, then becomes a child watching an opera by his father, Vincenzo. The planetary story in the opera within the opera reunites him with his deceased daughter.
Gallantry
Moore’s one-act opera parodies a television soap opera, interrupting the sung action with commercial-style announcements. Its four roles include an announcer, a nurse, a patient and a doctor.
Gawain
At Christmas in Camelot, the Green Knight challenges a knight to behead him and receive the same blow a year later. Gawain accepts, beheads him, and travels north to the Green Chapel. At Bertilak’s home, he agrees to exchange whatever he gains each day for the host’s hunt. Lady de Hautdesert kisses him three days running and gives him a protective sash, which he hides. The Green Knight wounds Gawain slightly, explaining that the three blows reflect Gawain’s honesty and his concealment of the sash. Gawain returns to Camelot angry at the court’s assumption that he has been heroic.
Gemma di Vergy
Gemma, the childless wife of the Count of Vergy, grieves as he arranges to annul their marriage and bring home a new bride, Ida. After Tamas, a slave secretly in love with Gemma, murders the Count, Gemma faces further despair.
Geneviève de Brabant
The Duke Sifroid condemns his wife Geneviève after the scheming Golo falsely accuses her of infidelity. Geneviève and her page Drogan escape, and Drogan helps expose Golo’s plan to seize the throne. Sifroid returns, regains his crown and reconciles with Geneviève.
Genitrix
A two-act opera based on François Mauriac’s novel Genitrix.
Genji monogatari
An operatic adaptation of the first three books of Murasaki Shikibu’s The Tale of Genji, with a cast including Prince Genji, the Old Emperor, Fujitsubo, Lady Rokujo, Aoi, and the lady of Akashi.
Genoveva
Before leaving for war, Siegfried entrusts his wife Genoveva to his servant Golo, whose nurse Margaretha encourages him to pursue her. When Genoveva rejects Golo, he stages a false adulterous encounter, and Siegfried orders her death. A mute, deaf boy saves her; Siegfried discovers Golo’s treachery and restores Genoveva’s honor.
Gensericus oder Sieg der Schönheit
After Genseric’s Vandals conquer Rome, he pursues the emperor’s widow Eudoxia, while his son Honoricus seeks her daughter Pulcheria. The Vandal prince Helmige rejects Melita’s affection and pursues Placida, who is engaged to the Roman Olybrius.
Germania
In Napoleonic-occupied Germany, students debate resistance while hiding publisher Palm. Carlo Worms and Federico Loewe are rivals in politics and love; after Ricke’s affair with Worms is exposed, the men meet again in an anti-Napoleon league and march to battle. In the aftermath, Ricke finds Worms dead and Loewe mortally wounded.
Germanico
A one-act serenata celebrating Germanicus’s victory over the German chieftain Arminius. Germanicus’s wife Agrippina the Elder is also a character; the source gives no further plot.
Germanico in Germania
A fictionalized account of the Roman general Germanicus, set in Germania Inferior in 14 AD.
Germanicus
Telemann’s opera dramatizes events surrounding Germanicus and centers on a love triangle involving the Germanic leader Arminius, Agrippina the Younger and Claudius. The original score was believed lost; 45 arias later recovered were presented with spoken text between them.
Gernika
Gernika and her lover Gogor discover armed visitors, and the King of the North offers the Basques protection while promising to respect their laws and freedom. Podio tries to possess Gernika and later demands aid for the King, provoking division among the Basques; he also attempts to kill the King. The opera represents the 1937 bombing of Gernika, then shows Podio killing Gernika and burning the town, while Gogor is restrained from revenge and the King promises punishment.
Gervaise Macquart
A two-act opera by Giselher Klebe with a libretto by Lore Klebe, based on Émile Zola’s novel L’Assommoir.
Ghiselle
A sixth-century Merovingian opera whose violent plot ends in a double suicide.
Ghost Patrol
Landlord Alasdair catches a homeless thief and recognizes him as Sam, a former member of his army platoon. The two men once colluded in a traumatic atrocity, and the opera explores its aftermath.
Gianni Schicchi
When Buoso Donati dies, his relatives discover that his fortune has been left to a monastery. They enlist Gianni Schicchi, whose daughter Lauretta loves Rinuccio, to help them. Schicchi disguises himself as Buoso and dictates a new will, assigning the mule, house, and mills to himself while giving the relatives smaller bequests. The relatives cannot object in front of the notary without exposing their fraud. Schicchi evicts them from what is now his house, and Lauretta and Rinuccio can marry. He turns to the audience and asks them to forgive his deception.
Gianni di Calais
Princess Matilde flees an arranged marriage and is rescued from pirates by shipowner Gianni, whom she marries. Years later, the king summons Gianni to help search for his missing daughter. Gianni realizes Matilde’s identity, and she returns to court. A rejected suitor attempts to kidnap their son, but Rustano rescues him; the king punishes the suitor and accepts Gianni as Matilde’s husband.
Gianni di Parigi
Innkeeper Pedrigo prepares for the Princess of Navarre, but a wealthy traveler from Paris, Gianni, pays extra and takes the lodging. The princess accepts the inconvenience because she recognizes Gianni as the disguised son of King Philip de Valois. They fall in love and prepare to marry.
Giannina e Bernardone
A two-act Italian dramma giocoso with seven named roles, including Giannina, Masino, Bernardone, Lauretta, and Captain Francone.
Giants in the Earth
The opera depicts tragedy and romance among Norwegian-American settlers in Dakota Territory in 1873. The listed principal characters include Beret and Per Hansa, their neighbors Hans Olsa and Sorrine, Syvert Tonetsen and Kjersti, and their families.
Giasone
Jason is in love with Medea, though he is already married to Queen Isifile and has twins with her. After winning the Golden Fleece, Jason and Medea arrive in Lemnos, where Isifile confronts him. Jason orders his captain Besso to kill Isifile, but Besso instead throws Medea into the sea. A chain of misunderstandings resolves with Jason and Isifile reconciled, while Medea and Aegeus turn to one another.
Gilgamesh
Following the Babylonian epic, Per Nørgård’s opera moves through six days and seven nights, beginning with the creation of the world and ending with Gilgamesh’s rebirth. The staging places performers and musicians in the center of a rectangular room, with the audience on both sides.
Gilgameš
A three-act opera about Gilgamesh, the Sumerian king, and Enkidu, his friend and brother, based on the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh.
Gillet pa Solhaug
A three-act Swedish-language opera by Wilhelm Stenhammar based on Henrik Ibsen’s play The Feast at Solhaug. Completed in 1893, it premiered in Stuttgart in 1899 before its Swedish premiere in 1902. No plot description or librettist identification is available in the reviewed text.
Gillette de Narbonne
Gillette, adopted by Count Roger’s family, loves Roger, who refuses to marry her. She cures King René, who promises her any reward; she asks to marry Roger. Roger leaves for war after their wedding without consummating it, setting conditions for acknowledging her as wife. Disguised as her twin brother, Gillette later takes another woman’s place and consummates the marriage with Roger, leaving him her ring. Ten months later, she has a son. Roger returns and fears another man fathered the child; Gillette shows him the ring, and he accepts her as his wife.
Ginevra di Scozia
Two-act Italian opera based on cantos 5 and 6 of Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso through Antonio Salvi’s Ginevra, principessa di Scozia.
Giovanna Gray
In 1553, after Edward VI names Giovanna (Lady Jane Grey) his heir, she reluctantly accepts the crown at her husband Guilford’s urging. Mary gathers troops; after Guilford’s father is defeated, the court shifts allegiance and Mary deposes Giovanna. Imprisoned in the Tower, Giovanna and Guilford are sentenced to death for treason. As Guilford is led to execution, Giovanna comforts her friend Anna. Dressed as a bride for heaven, Giovanna prays, ascends to her execution, and imagines herself joining her dead husband.
Giovanna d'Arco
In France in 1429, Charles, not yet crowned king, tells his people of a vision directing him to lay down his weapons. Giovanna prays to lead the French forces and hears angels call her to fight. Her father Giacomo believes she has made a pact with the devil. Giovanna leads the French to victory and Charles declares his love, but she resists him. Giacomo denounces her, and the English capture her and condemn her to death. Giacomo recognizes his error and frees her; she returns to battle, where the French win. Giovanna dies after briefly reviving, and is taken to heaven.
Giove in Argo
In a mythological setting, figures including Jupiter, Isis, Osiris, Diana, and Calisto appear in disguises and mistaken identities among shepherds and rulers.
Giralda ou La nouvelle psyché
On pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, the Queen of Spain and her husband stop at the cottage of miller Ginès, who is about to marry Giralda. Giralda loves a knight, Don Manoël, who bribes Ginès to take his place at the altar, then flees when the royal couple arrives because he is in hiding for a political crime. Confused events leave Giralda believing she has married Ginès and an older lord, Don Japhet. Manoël returns, the Queen pardons him, and he becomes Giralda’s husband.
Girls of the Golden West
A two-act opera set during the California Gold Rush, inspired by Louise Clappe’s letters from a mining settlement and other period sources, including newspaper accounts and Mark Twain’s writings.
Giroflé-Girofla
In thirteenth-century Spain, twin sisters Giroflé and Girofla are promised to different men. Pirates abduct Girofla just after Giroflé marries Marasquin, so their parents make Giroflé impersonate her sister to appease another groom. When the deception is exposed, Girofla returns and both weddings proceed.
Gisela!
Art student Gisela visits Naples with her German boyfriend Hanspeter and falls in love with Gennaro, a young actor playing Pulcinella. They flee to Germany, but after arriving in Oberhausen they have nowhere to stay; Gisela dreams that Hanspeter and his friends attack them as Vesuvius erupts.
Gismonda
Henry Février’s three-act French grand opera adapts Victorien Sardou’s 1894 play Gismonda. It premiered in Chicago with Mary Garden in the title role before its Paris staging later in 1919.
Gismondo, rè di Polonia ossia il vincitor generoso
Polish king Gismondo and Lithuanian duke Primislao seek peace through the marriage of their children Otone and Cunegonda, who are already in love. When the negotiations are sabotaged, war resumes and Primislao is presumed dead. Cunegonda seeks revenge, but Otone’s sister Giuditta has secretly rescued Primislao; peace is restored.
Giuditta
Giuditta leaves her husband to follow Captain Octavio to North Africa, where their love is disrupted by his military obligations and desertion. She becomes a celebrated nightclub dancer; four years later they meet again, but Octavio rejects her declaration of love and leaves emotionally broken.
Giulietta e Romeo
An Italian dramma per musica based on Luigi Da Porto’s 1530 novella and Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
Giulietta e Romeo
A two-act Italian opera based on Luigi Scevola’s tragedy and ultimately Luigi Da Porto’s novella of the Romeo and Juliet story.
Giulio Cesare in Egitto
Julius Caesar arrives in Egypt pursuing Pompey, whose wife Cornelia pleads for his life. Egypt’s co-ruler Tolomeo presents Caesar with Pompey’s severed head. Cornelia and her son Sesto vow revenge, while Tolomeo’s sister Cleopatra seeks Caesar’s support in taking the throne. Caesar and Cleopatra fall in love, and Caesar escapes an assassination attempt after being reported drowned. Sesto kills Tolomeo after he attempts to force himself on Cornelia. Caesar restores Cleopatra as queen of Egypt and returns to Rome.
Giulio Sabino
Set in first-century Gaul during the reign of Vespasian, this opera seria concerns the triumph of conjugal love.
Giunio Bruto
The opera centers on the love between Titus, son of Lucius Junius Brutus, and Tullia, daughter of the last king of Rome whom Brutus overthrew.
Giustino
The ploughman Giustino rescues Princess Leocasta and is enlisted to help Empress Arianna and her husband Anastasio resist the rebel Vitaliano. He saves Arianna from a sea monster, but the jealous general Amanzio convinces Anastasio that she is unfaithful. Giustino and Arianna are banished, and Giustino learns that Vitaliano is his long-lost brother. The two defeat Amanzio, restore Anastasio, and Giustino marries Leocasta.
Gli Orazi e i Curiazi
During Rome’s war with Alba Longa, Sabina of the Curiatii is married to Marcus Horatius, and their daughter Horatia is betrothed to Curiatius, leader of the Alban family. The kings agree to settle the conflict through a fight between three Horatii and three Curiatii. Horatia and Sabina delay the contest to consult Apollo’s oracle, which orders it to proceed. Marcus Horatius wins, killing Curiatius; when Horatia curses Rome for his death, her brother kills her.
Gli amanti generosi
An earlier opera staged in Naples in 1705 under this title, using a libretto revised from Giovanni Pietro Candi and Giulio Convò’s original by Silvio Stampiglia. The source does not identify its composer or give a plot summary.
Gli amanti sposi
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari’s three-act opera giocosa adapts Carlo Goldoni’s play Il ventaglio. The available text does not provide the plot.
Gli amori d'Apollo e di Dafne
This opera by Francesco Cavalli concerns Apollo's love for the nymph Daphne, following the account in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
Gli arabi nelle Gallie
Two-act opera seria based on Prévot’s novel Le Renégat. The characters include Ezilda, Princess of Civenna; Leodato, Prince of Auvergne; and Agobar, commander of the Arabs. No plot summary is supplied.
Gli dei a Tebe
Zeus tries to take the place of Amphitryon as he returns from war, hoping to approach Amphitryon’s wife Alcmene. Hera frustrates the plan by delaying the couple until morning, when Alcmene meets her real husband.
Gli equivoci
A two-act Italian opera buffa adapted from Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors.
Gli sposi malcontenti
Newlyweds Casimiro and Eginia are unhappy: Eginia still loves Artidoro, who now loves Casimiro’s sister Enrichetta. Rosmondo dislikes Eginia, and Valente spreads false rumors to avenge Enrichetta’s rejection. Eginia tries to run away, but the act-two finale exposes Valente’s plot and the newlyweds agree to renew their marriage.
Gloria
In fourteenth-century Siena, Guelph noblewoman Gloria falls in love with the Ghibelline captain Lionetto, and leaves the city with him. As he besieges Siena, Gloria agrees to marry him to end the conflict but refuses her brother’s demand that she kill him. At their wedding, her brother stabs Lionetto; Gloria kills herself beside him.
Gloriana
At a tournament, Elizabeth I reconciles Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, and Lord Mountjoy. Essex seeks permission to lead a campaign in Ireland, later becomes Lord Deputy, and eventually returns after failing to suppress the rebellion. Elizabeth’s affection for him conflicts with warnings about his political threat. Essex and his followers attempt to raise support against the Crown; after he is imprisoned in the Tower, Elizabeth signs his death warrant despite pleas for mercy, then reflects on their relationship and her mortality.
Goce
An opera composed by Kiril Makedonski, written by Venko Markovski, and dedicated to Gotse Delchev.
Golem
In sixteenth-century Prague, Rabbi Lőw creates a living Golem from clay. The Golem falls in love with the rabbi’s granddaughter Anna, and his touch and kiss infect her with a fatal illness. The rabbi destroys the Golem to save Anna.
Golem
The elderly Maharal recalls creating a golem in his youth. He forms Olem from riverbank clay and teaches him simple tasks; Olem then encounters Miriam and experiences desire, angering the Maharal. Olem and Ometh imagine joining forces to root out evil, but the Maharal distrusts Ometh. When townsman Stoikus becomes uncontrollable while awaiting a saviour, Olem kills him. The Maharal sees the body and realizes what Olem has done.
Goplana
The nymph Goplana interferes in human affairs, setting in motion the brutal fate of the sisters Balladyna and Alina.
Gormenghast
In Gormenghast Castle, the ambitious former kitchen boy Steerpike rises toward domination of the castle and its aristocratic inhabitants.
Goyescas
At a gathering outside a church, Paquiro flirts with the women before Rosario arrives to meet her lover, Fernando. Paquiro invites Rosario to a ball, and Fernando, suspecting her of flirting, insists on accompanying her. At the ball, Paquiro asks Rosario to dance, and Fernando insults him. Paquiro challenges Fernando to a duel. Later, in a palace garden, Fernando and Rosario share a tender moment, but Paquiro appears and Fernando leaves to fight. The duel ends with Fernando mortally wounded; Rosario holds him as he dies.
Graf Cagliostro
A contemporary comic opera adaptation of Alexei Nikolayevich Tolstoy’s tale about Cagliostro.
Great Scott
A full-length opera by Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally, commissioned by Dallas Opera and premiered in Dallas in 2015.
Greek
A retelling of Oedipus Rex set in London’s East End in the 1980s.
Grete Minde
The opera’s plot concerns Margarete von Minden, who set fire to the town of Tangermünde in 1619. It is based on Theodor Fontane’s novella.
Griffelkin
On his tenth birthday, the young devil Griffelkin is sent to earth to cause mischief. He animates objects, but when he learns that a girl’s mother has died, he uses his last magic potion to revive her. Hell condemns him for his compassion and turns him into a human boy, whom the girl’s family welcomes.
Griselda
King Gualtiero’s marriage to the shepherdess Griselda provokes rebellion. He secretly sent their daughter Costanza to be raised by Prince Corrado and now plans to marry her, though she loves Roberto and does not know her parentage. Gualtiero dismisses Griselda, who returns to the countryside. Ottone pursues and tries to kidnap her, but Gualtiero stops him and brings Griselda back as Costanza’s slave. When Griselda refuses Ottone and proves her faithfulness, Gualtiero takes her back as his wife, reveals Costanza’s identity, and allows her to marry Roberto.
Griselda
King Gualtiero married the poor shepherdess Griselda, but the marriage was unpopular. When their daughter Costanza was born, he secretly sent her to be raised by Prince Corrado. Facing rebellion, Gualtiero renounces Griselda and plans to marry Costanza, who loves Corrado’s brother Roberto. Griselda returns to the countryside, where courtier Ottone pursues her. Gualtiero rescues her from Ottone’s kidnapping attempt and brings her back as Costanza’s slave. Griselda remains faithful, and Gualtiero restores her as his wife, reveals Costanza’s parentage, and allows her to marry Roberto.
Griselda
King Gualtiero tests Griselda’s virtue, banishing her and claiming their daughter was killed. He plans to marry Almirena, unaware she is their daughter and in love with Ernesto. Back at her cottage, Griselda rejects the nobleman Rambaldo, who threatens her infant son. She flees to the palace and serves Almirena. Gualtiero’s final test is to order Griselda to marry Rambaldo; she refuses. The king reveals his motives, restores her as queen, and allows Almirena and Ernesto to reunite. Rambaldo is forgiven for fomenting rebellion to win Griselda.
Griselda
King Gualtiero’s marriage to the shepherdess Griselda has provoked rebellion. When their daughter Costanza was born, he secretly sent her away and pretended she had died; now he plans to marry Costanza, who is unaware of her parentage and loves Roberto. Gualtiero dismisses Griselda, who returns to her cottage. Courtier Ottone pursues her and tries to abduct her, but Gualtiero stops him and brings Griselda back as Costanza’s slave. After Griselda refuses Ottone and proves her virtue, Gualtiero takes her back as his wife, reveals Costanza’s identity, pardons Ottone, and allows Costanza to marry Roberto.
Grisélidis
The Marquis marries Grisélidis, leaving her former suitor Alain heartbroken. As he departs on Crusade, the Devil wagers that he can make Grisélidis unfaithful. Disguised, he presents the Marquis’s ring as proof of rejection, conjures a garden to tempt her with Alain, and steals her son Loÿs. On returning, the Marquis recognizes the Devil’s deception and reunites with his wife; the child is restored.
Grounded
F-16 pilot Jess falls in love with rancher Eric, becomes pregnant and is grounded from flying. After their daughter Sam is born, Jess returns to military service as a remote drone operator near Las Vegas. The work begins to fracture her sense of home and combat; when a target appears with a child, Jess sees Sam and deliberately crashes her drone, but a backup pilot carries out the strike. She is court-martialed and imprisoned.
Guatimotzin
A musical episode about the doomed defense of Mexico by its last Aztec emperor, Cuauhtémoc.
Guercœur
After dying in battle, Guercœur asks to return from Heaven to save his city. He finds his friend Heurtal planning to rule despotically after marrying Guercœur’s widow, Giselle. The people reject Guercœur’s warnings against corruption and murder him. Disillusioned, he returns to Heaven, where the Goddess of Truth assures him that humanity has a great age ahead.
Guglielmo Ratcliff
After rejecting Guglielmo Ratcliff, Maria is pursued by a succession of violent tragedies: Ratcliff challenges and kills her earlier suitors, then duels her betrothed, Count Douglas. A family revelation about Maria’s mother and Ratcliff’s father prompts Ratcliff to plead with Maria to flee. When she refuses, he kills her and her father, then dies by suicide.
Guido et Ginevra
Ginevra is promised to the Duke of Ferrara, but a poisoned veil leaves her in a deathlike trance and she is buried. She awakens in the Medici vault, finds shelter with sculptor Guido, and is reunited with her father, who agrees to their marriage.
Guillaume Tell
A three-act French opéra comique about Swiss patriots led by Guillaume Tell resisting the oppressive Austrian governor Guesler in the thirteenth century. A fuller plot is not provided.
Guillaume Tell
In Austrian-occupied Switzerland, William Tell helps shepherd Leuthold escape the governor’s soldiers, and the arrest of Melchthal pushes Arnold to join a planned uprising. Tell, Arnold, and Walter unite the three cantons in rebellion. Governor Gesler forces Tell to shoot an apple from his son Jemmy’s head, then orders Tell transported across the stormy lake. Tell escapes, kills Gesler, and learns that Arnold and the rebels have captured Altdorf. Arnold and Mathilde reunite as the Swiss celebrate their freedom.
Guntram
In medieval Germany, the minstrel Guntram becomes entangled with Freihild, the saintly wife of the evil Duke Robert, in a story of love and redemption.
Gustaf Adolf och Ebba Brahe
A Swedish-language opera by Georg Joseph Vogler to a libretto by Johan Henric Kellgren. No plot description or premiere information is available in the reviewed text.
Gustave III, ou Le bal masqué
A five-act historical opera about the assassination of Gustav III, King of Sweden. The source gives no fuller account of its plot.
Gustavo III
King Gustavo III’s secretary and confidant Anckarström is married to Amelia, with whom Gustavo is in love. The conspiracy against the king culminates in his assassination at a masked ball.
Gustavo primo, re di Svezia
Gustav escapes imprisonment in Denmark and hides in Dalarna, where he becomes a leader in the struggle against Danish rule and is elected king. In disguise as Learco, he becomes entangled with Ergilda and Dorisbe, later revealed as his cousin Clotilde.
Gwendoline
When Danish raiders attack a Saxon village, Gwendoline pleads with their leader Harald to spare her father, Armel. She and Harald fall in love and marry, but Armel plots revenge; as the Danes are attacked, Harald is killed and Gwendoline takes her own life beside him.
Gypsy Love
Zorika, daughter of a Romanian landowner, is engaged to the nobleman Jonel but is drawn to his half-brother Joszi, a violinist. She plans to elope with Joszi and falls asleep by the Cerna River, where a dream shows her traveling with the Romani and discovering that Joszi will not marry her. Waking beside the river, she recognizes that her true love is Jonel.
Götterdämmerung
Hagen manipulates Siegfried and the Gibichungs to gain the cursed ring. A potion makes Siegfried forget Brünnhilde, and he helps Gunther claim her; Brünnhilde later joins Hagen and Gunther in plotting against him. Hagen kills Siegfried, then kills Gunther while fighting for the ring. Brünnhilde recognizes Siegfried’s innocence, returns the ring to the Rhine, and rides into his funeral pyre. The fire destroys the Gibichung hall and Valhalla; the Rhinemaidens reclaim the ring and drown Hagen.
Günther von Schwarzburg
During the German succession crisis of 1347–1349, Count Günther and Karl, King of Bohemia, vie to succeed Ludwig the Bavarian as Holy Roman Emperor. Günther is supported by Rudolf, while Asberta intrigues for her son Karl by manipulating Rudolf’s daughter Anna. Asberta poisons Günther and then kills herself; Karl secures the throne and marries Anna.
Gılgameş
A three-act, twelve-scene Turkish opera based on the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Gılgamış
A Turkish-language opera by Nevit Kodallı related to the Epic of Gilgamesh and to the 1954 play Gods and Men.
H.M.S. Pinafore
Aboard HMS Pinafore, Captain Corcoran’s daughter Josephine loves Ralph Rackstraw, a lower-class sailor, while her father intends her to marry Sir Joseph Porter. Ralph and Josephine plan to elope, but Dick Deadeye reveals their plan. Little Buttercup then discloses that she accidentally switched two babies years earlier: Ralph is the Captain’s child, and Corcoran was born to a lower rank. Their identities and ranks are exchanged, allowing Ralph and Josephine to marry; Corcoran marries Buttercup, and Sir Joseph settles for Cousin Hebe.
Haddon Hall
Set around 1660, Dorothy Vernon is expected to marry her cousin Rupert, but loves Royalist John Manners. After her father refuses their match, Dorothy and Manners elope. Following the Restoration, the king returns Haddon Hall to Sir George Vernon; Manners brings Dorothy back as his wife, and her father forgives her.
Hafez
A puppet opera about the Persian poet Hafez and efforts to preserve his writings from the Persian government.
Hagith
The aged King David is told that a young woman’s love may restore his health. His son has just been crowned against his wishes. Hagith and the young king declare their love, but she refuses to sacrifice herself for David and tells him she hates him; he dies in anger. Hagith is accused of killing him and sentenced to death, and the new king cannot save her.
Halka
Halka, a highlander girl, loves the nobleman Janusz, who promised to marry her but is now engaged to Zofia. Jontek shows Halka the truth, and she returns to her village pregnant and consumed by grief. On Janusz and Zofia’s wedding day, Halka considers burning the church but lets Janusz live and throws herself into the river.
Hamlet
Hamlet learns from his father’s ghost that Claudius murdered the king and seeks to expose the crime. His rejection of Ophélie drives her to madness and death; after a duel with Laërte, Hamlet kills Claudius and is proclaimed king, surviving in the standard ending.
Hamlet
In this adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy, Prince Hamlet confronts the ghost of his father, the court of King Claudius, and the consequences of his response to his father’s death. Dean and Jocelyn draw on the play and its first quarto, reshaping portions of the text for the opera.
Hans Heiling
The underworld prince Hans Heiling leaves his realm to marry the mortal Anna, but she falls in love with Konrad. Heiling regains power and seeks revenge at their wedding, until his mother persuades him to reconcile and return with her to the underworld.
Harold, or the Norman Conquest
Outlawed Harold secretly loves Edith, but is taken to Normandy by Duke William, who deceives him into swearing to support his claim to the English crown. When King Edward dies, Archbishop Stigand frees Harold from the oath because William lied; Harold accepts the crown but loses Edith, who has taken religious vows. At Hastings, Harold is killed in battle. One ending has William claim the throne and order Harold buried as a soldier; an alternate ending stops with Edith grieving over his body.
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Haroun’s father Rashid, a storyteller, loses his ability after his wife leaves. Haroun journeys through a fantastic world to help Rashid regain his gift, opposing Khattam-Shud and the politician Snooty Buttoo, who seek to end storytelling and control the world.
Harriet, the Woman Called Moses
After escaping slavery, Harriet Tubman is sheltered by abolitionist Thomas Garrett but dreams of those left behind. She returns south to guide enslaved people to freedom, ultimately rescuing her family and reuniting with Josiah. As they flee to Canada, slave owner Preston shoots at Harriet but kills Josiah.
Harvey Milk
A biographical opera about activist and politician Harvey Milk, whose political work and assassination with San Francisco mayor George Moscone in 1978 form the subject.
Haste to the Wedding
On his wedding day, Woodpecker Tapping must find a replacement for a straw hat his horse damaged, while keeping the bride’s family from discovering other women in his house. His search leads to mistaken identities at a milliner’s, a concert, and a general’s home, and causes the wedding party to be arrested. The matching hat turns up among the wedding presents, and the couple and their companions are reconciled.
Haydée, ou Le secret
Venetian admiral Lorédan lives with guilt over having cheated the senator Donato at dice, causing the senator’s death. His slave Haydée loves him and agrees to marry Malipieri when he threatens to reveal Lorédan’s secret, but a messenger reveals that Andrea, who has captured a Turkish ship, is Donato’s son and has killed Malipieri in a duel. Lorédan and Andrea reconcile; Lorédan marries Haydée, Andrea marries Rafaela, and Lorédan becomes Doge of Venice.
He Who Gets Slapped
A mysterious intellectual joins a French circus as a clown and falls in love with Consuelo, who loves the jockey Begano. Pantaloon disrupts plans to marry Consuelo to Count Mancini, but when he confesses his love, she rejects him and leaves with Begano.
Showing 985–1,104 of 3,280 shows
Load more shows