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Il trovatore

Opera · 1853

Leonora loves the troubadour Manrico, while Count di Luna also seeks her. Manrico’s mother Azucena recounts that she abducted the Count’s infant brother to avenge her own mother’s execution but mistakenly burned her own child. The Count’s forces capture Azucena; Manrico is arrested while trying to save her. Leonora bargains with the Count for Manrico’s release but takes poison, and dies beside Manrico in prison. The Count then orders Manrico’s execution; Azucena reveals that Manrico was the Count’s brother and that she has been avenged.

Il turco in Italia

Opera · 1814

The poet Prosdocimo looks for a subject for a comic drama and hears Zaida’s story: she fled a Turkish harem after being falsely accused of infidelity but still loves Prince Selim. Selim arrives in Naples, where the married Fiorilla falls for him, while her admirer Narciso pursues her. Selim offers to buy Fiorilla from her husband, Geronio, who refuses. At a masked ball, Fiorilla mistakes Narciso for Selim, while Selim mistakes Zaida for Fiorilla. Selim leaves with Zaida, and Fiorilla returns home to find that Geronio has staged a divorce. He eventually forgives her, and the two couples reunite.

In the Penal Colony

Opera · 2000

A Visitor arrives at a remote penal colony to witness an execution by a machine that inscribes a prisoner’s crimes into his flesh before killing him. The Officer, devoted to the device and its dead inventor, hopes the Visitor will endorse its supposed redemptive purpose. The Visitor opposes the procedure but refuses to intervene. The Officer releases the prisoner and takes his own place in the machine. It malfunctions, kills him quickly, and destroys itself; the Visitor leaves the island.

Innocence

Opera · 2021

At a wedding in Helsinki, Tereza, a waitress and mother of a school-shooting victim, learns that groom Tuomas is the shooter’s brother. The action alternates between the wedding and the school ten years earlier, where students’ memories reveal that they bullied the shooter. Tuomas eventually discloses that he and Iris helped plan the attack but withdrew at the last moment; the shooter acted alone. Tuomas leaves Stela, while the ghost of Tereza’s daughter Markéta comforts her and asks her to move forward.

Iolanta

Opera · 1892

Princess Iolanta has been blind since birth, but her father King René has kept this from her. Physician Ibn-Hakia says she can be cured only if she learns she is blind and wants to see. Count Vaudémont enters her garden and falls in love with her; when she cannot distinguish a red rose from a white one, he explains light and color. René threatens Vaudémont to motivate Iolanta, who agrees to treatment. It succeeds, and she rejoices in seeing the world. René releases her from her betrothal to Robert and gives her to Vaudémont.

Iolanthe

Opera · 1882

The fairy Iolanthe was banished for marrying a mortal and secretly raised their son Strephon, an Arcadian shepherd. Strephon loves Phyllis, a ward of the Lord Chancellor, who forbids their marriage while he and other peers seek to marry her. When Iolanthe’s embrace of Strephon is mistaken for a lover’s, Phyllis rejects him. Strephon gains political power through the fairies; later, Iolanthe reveals that the Lord Chancellor is her husband and Strephon’s father. The Fairy Queen is about to punish Iolanthe for breaking fairy law again, but the peers and fairies avert the sentences by changing the law so fairies must marry mortals.

Iphigénie en Aulide

Opera · 1774

Agamemnon learns that he must sacrifice his daughter Iphigénie to secure winds for the Greek fleet sailing to Troy. He summons her to Aulis under the pretext of a marriage to Achilles, then tries to stop her arrival. Iphigénie and her mother Clytemnestre come despite his efforts. When the Greeks press for the sacrifice, Iphigénie accepts her fate, but Achilles intervenes and Calchas announces that Diana has relented and permits the marriage.

Iphigénie en Tauride

Opera · 1779

Iphigenia, a priestess of Diana in Tauris, learns that two shipwrecked Greeks are to be sacrificed. They are her brother Orestes and his friend Pylades, who have come to retrieve Diana’s statue. Iphigenia recognizes Orestes only as she is about to sacrifice him. King Thoas arrives intending to kill the siblings, but Pylades returns with Greeks who kill Thoas. Diana appears, pardons Orestes for killing his mother, and orders the statue returned to Greece.

Iris

Opera · 1898

Iris, the innocent daughter of the blind Il Cieco, lives happily with her father. Osaka, seeking adventure, arranges to have her kidnapped and taken to Kyoto’s geisha house in Yoshiwara. Osaka tries to seduce Iris but gives up and tells Kyoto to get rid of her. Kyoto displays her to the crowd; Il Cieco arrives, believes she abandoned him, and curses her. Iris becomes mad and throws herself into a sewer. The next morning she revives, hears the voices of Osaka, Kyoto, and her father, then dies as she feels the rising sun.

Iron Road

Opera · 2001

In 1880s Guangdong, Lai Gwan’s dying mother sends her to Canada to find her father. Disguised as a man, Lai Gwan travels to Canada and meets her father Manli without recognizing him. She is assigned dangerous railway work, and engineer James Nichol discovers her identity and protects her. After a worker dies, Lai Gwan leads a peaceful protest; Manli orders her hanged, but Nichol intervenes and reveals Manli as her father. In act two, Manli learns of his wife’s death and takes dynamite into a mountain. Lai Gwan and Nichol follow and are trapped by an explosion; Nichol dies after they profess love, while Manli survives. Years later, as the railway is completed, Manli and Lai Gwan perform funeral rites for the dead and are blessed to live together in peace.

Isoline

Opera · 1888

Oberon curses Princess Isoline to become a man on her wedding night. She is kept in a castle but dreams of Prince Isolin, and the two fall in love. Oberon and Titania alternately manipulate them: Isoline believes she is ugly and rejects Isolin until she sees her reflection in his dagger. After a battle, Queen Amalasonthe consents to their marriage. Titania’s magic transforms the bride into a boy and the groom into a girl at their first kiss, allowing the pair to sail to Cythera. Oberon and Titania reconcile.

Ivan IV

Opera · 1940

In the Caucasus, Ivan in disguise meets Marie, daughter of Circassian prince Temrouk. Russian soldiers seize her, and her brother Igor is chosen by lot to avenge the family. In Moscow, Ivan chooses Marie as his bride, but she refuses and takes protection from his sister Olga. Igor, Temrouk, and boyar Yorloff conspire against the tsar. Marie falls in love with Ivan but is horrified when Igor comes to kill him. A fire and attack disrupt the palace; Yorloff later claims regency, but Ivan exposes his plot and condemns him, while Marie and Igor are praised.

Jackie O

Opera · 1997

At a 1968 happening in Andy Warhol’s studio, Jackie meets Aristotle Onassis, prompting Maria Callas to realize he will leave her. Jackie and Onassis escape to see a film. A year after their marriage, Jackie grows melancholy on Onassis’s yacht and island. Callas seeks a reunion with Onassis, then reconciles with Jackie. They smash a paparazzo’s camera, after which Jackie communicates with her dead husband John F. Kennedy, forgives his infidelities, and decides to return to America.

Jone, ossia L’ultimo giorno di Pompei

Opera · 1858

Both Glauco and the high priest Arbace love Jone, while the slave Nidia loves Glauco. Arbace’s servant Burbo gives Nidia poison to pass to Glauco as a love potion. Arbace then tries to force Jone into the temple of Isis; Glauco rescues her but is condemned for sacrilege. Nidia exposes Arbace to the praetor, freeing Glauco. When Vesuvius erupts, Arbace dies; Jone and Glauco escape, while Nidia returns to the city.

King and Charcoal Burner

Opera · 1874

During a hunt, the lost King Matyáš arrives incognito at the charcoal burner Matěj’s hut. Matěj welcomes him, while his daughter Liduška and the young charcoal burner Jeník love each other but are kept apart by their poverty. The disguised king kisses Liduška, prompting Jeník’s jealousy; after the royal party discovers the king, Jeník leaves for the army. Later, at the Prague court, the king stages a mock trial of Matěj’s family and arranges for Jeník to marry Liduška. Jeník accepts when he learns she is his intended bride; the king ultimately blesses their union and that of Jindřich and Eva. The king thanks the charcoal burner’s family for the hospitality and lessons they gave him.

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