Iphigénie en Tauride
A French tragédie en musique based on Euripides’ Iphigeneia in Tauris.
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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.
Iphigénie en Tauride
A four-act French tragédie lyrique based on Claude Guimond de La Touche’s play and ultimately Euripides’ Iphigeneia in Tauris. In Piccinni’s version, King Thoas is in love with Iphigénie and is less barbaric than in Gluck’s opera.
Ippolito ed Aricia
A five-act Italian reform opera based on a libretto for Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie, itself derived from Racine’s Phèdre.
Iris
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.
Irma
An experimental opera assembled from 93 phrases drawn from W. H. Mallock’s novel A Human Document and reworked by Tom Phillips. The phrases became sound suggestions, libretto, and staging directions; the work uses elements including dance episodes and a drinking chorus.
Irmelin
Princess Irmelin rejects the suitors chosen by her father while awaiting the dream lover foretold by a voice. Nils, a prince enslaved as a swineherd by robber chief Rolf, searches for her. He reaches the castle, meets Irmelin, and the two declare their love before disappearing together into the forest.
Iron Road
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.
Irrelohe
A curse on the castle of Irrelohe drives each lord to assault a woman and die insane. Peter learns he was born of the assault on his mother and fears he has inherited the madness; as Eva falls in love with the current lord, Heinrich, Peter tries to assault her at their wedding but is killed by Heinrich, who then looks toward a future with Eva.
Isabeau
King Raimondo seeks a husband for Isabeau, who refuses to choose. He forces her to ride naked through the city, where the people avert their eyes and demand that anyone who looks be blinded. The falconer Folco accidentally sees her and is imprisoned. Isabeau falls in love with him, but a mob kills Folco; Isabeau dies by suicide beside him.
Isabella d'Aspeno
Set in 14th-century Westphalia, the opera follows Isabella and a group of characters involved in forbidden love and political rivalry. As in Verdi's later Un ballo in maschera, a ruler is killed by his rival at a masked ball, and a mysterious gypsy fortune teller directs the heroine to gather herbs for a potion.
Isbé
Adamas, a chief Druid, conceives a passion for Isbé.
Isis
Io is promised in marriage to Hierax, but Jupiter pursues her and she yields despite her guilt. Juno imprisons and tortures Io; Jupiter promises to remain faithful to Juno if she spares her. Juno transforms Io into the goddess Isis.
Ismène et Isménias, ou La fête de Jupiter
A three-act tragédie lyrique that includes an abridged staging of Noverre’s ballet Médée et Jason in act two, featuring Medea, Creusa and Jason.
Isoline
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.
Issé
Apollo, disguised as shepherd Philémon, pursues the nymph Issé, while Pan takes an interest in Doris.
István király
A historical drama set during King Stephen I’s reign, concerning the death of his son Imre and the struggle between Christianity and paganism.
It’s a Wonderful Life
Desperate George Bailey encounters Clarence, an angel. Jake Heggie’s opera adapts the 1946 film, with a libretto by Gene Scheer.
Ivan IV
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.
Ivan the Fool
Ivan empties his wagon to feed birds and shelter freezing tree stumps, and his family scolds him for neglecting his work. A magical horse provides him with suitable clothes to attend the Tsar’s feast, where Ivan is found with the princess’s kerchief and welcomed as the Tsar’s son-in-law. His brothers reconcile with him.
Ivanhoe
During the conflict between Saxons and Normans, Ivanhoe returns in disguise and wins a tournament, while Prince John’s allies abduct Rowena and Rebecca. King Richard and his supporters attack the captors’ stronghold; Rebecca is condemned for witchcraft, but Ivanhoe champions her and Sir Brian dies before he can strike. Rebecca is freed, and Ivanhoe reunites with Rowena.
Ivanhoé
This three-act French pastiche opera is based on Walter Scott's novel Ivanhoe and draws on music from several operas by Gioachino Rossini.
JFK
Set during John F. Kennedy’s final night in Fort Worth before his assassination, the opera layers the events with Jackie Kennedy’s disorienting dream involving Clara Harris, Henry Rathbone, and the mythological Fates.
Jaakko Ilkka
Landowner Jaakko Ilkka becomes the leader of a peasant uprising against Klaus Fleming during the Cudgel War. The rebellion ends in Ilkka’s defeat after his own troops turn against him.
Jackie O
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.
Jacobowsky und der Oberst
A four-act German opera by Giselher Klebe based on Franz Werfel’s 1944 play of the same title, set in France in 1940.
Jag går i kloster
Heiress Julie must marry or enter a convent. Her childhood friend Sansdoute disguises himself as a monk and persuades her to marry him, while her other suitors accept the outcome.
Jaguarita l'Indienne
Jaguarita, queen of a native tribe, is held prisoner by the Dutch. She drugs her guard Maurice and kidnaps him as part of her escape; after falling in love with him, she gets her tribesmen drunk and manages to turn aside their attack on the Dutch settlement.
Jakob Lenz
A one-act chamber opera about poet Jakob Lenz, based on Georg Büchner’s novella, which itself draws on an incident in Lenz’s life.
Jane Annie
At a girls’ school near Oxford, the supposedly virtuous Jane Annie disrupts Bab’s attempt to elope and wins a conduct prize. She then uses hypnotism to arrange romantic pairings and to get the headmistress, proctor, and students to approve an end-of-term celebration and the couples’ escape.
Jane Eyre
A two-act opera based on Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre. The entry gives no further account of the operatic plot.
Jane Eyre
A three-act opera by John Joubert, to a libretto by Kenneth Birkin based on Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre. The opera was composed from 1987 to 1997; the revised version received its world premiere in Birmingham in 2016. No plot description is available in the reviewed text.
Jane Eyre
An opera by Louis Karchin with a libretto by Diane Osen based on Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. The listed roles include Jane Eyre, Mr Rochester, Blanche Ingram, and St John Rivers; no plot synopsis is available in the reviewed text.
Janek
In the eighteenth-century Tatra Mountains, robber leader Janek arrives wounded at Bronka’s cottage and falls for her, though she is engaged to Stach. Jealous of the growing romance, Janek’s own betrothed Marynka urges Stach to violence.
Jardín de Oriente
Set in a North African sultan’s palace and gardens, the opera recounts the love story between one of the sultan’s wives and the man who defeats him in battle.
Jason, ou La toison d’or
A tragédie lyrique based on the legend of Jason and the Golden Fleece in Apollonius of Rhodes’s Argonautica.
Jean de Nivelle
Jean, a duke hiding as a shepherd to escape a forced marriage, attracts Arlette’s love and Simone’s suspicion. At court, he kills Saladin while defending Arlette, but is accused of rebellion. After fighting on Charolais’s side, Jean loses his courage before battle; the king pardons him, and he leaves with Arlette.
Jean de Paris
The Princess of Navarre travels to marry the Dauphin, who arrives at her inn disguised as Jean de Paris. She recognizes her bridegroom and plays along with his assumed identity; after a shared meal and songs, he reveals himself as the Dauphin.
Jeanie Deans
Based loosely on Walter Scott’s The Heart of Midlothian, the opera follows Jeanie Deans and her sister Effie. It ends with Effie’s release from Edinburgh’s Tolbooth prison.
Jefferson & Poe
Set at Monticello on a March evening in the early nineteenth century, the opera portrays two love stories: one between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, and another between Edgar Allan Poe and Jefferson and Hemings’s daughter.
Jenůfa
Jenůfa is secretly pregnant by Števa, who is to inherit the mill. Her stepbrother Laca, who loves her, slashes her cheek after she defends Števa. After the child is born, Števa refuses to acknowledge him and becomes engaged to another woman. Jenůfa’s stepmother, the Kostelnička, tells her that the baby died and drowns him. When the child’s body is found, the Kostelnička confesses. Jenůfa forgives her, and Laca promises to remain with Jenůfa.
Jephtas Gelübde
An opera based on the biblical story of Jephthah in the Book of Judges.
Jephté
Jephté vows to sacrifice the first person he sees on returning from battle if he wins. That person is his daughter Iphise, who loves Ammon, a captive leader of the Ephraimites. Jephté tells her of his vow, and she accepts her fate despite Ammon’s offer to rescue her. As the Israelites prepare the sacrifice, Ammon and his men attempt to intervene but are struck by a bolt from Heaven. The priest declares that God is pleased with Iphise and spares her life.
Jeppe: The Cruel Comedy
Writer Jeppe Verflucht, once rejected by media mogul Harry Schoenberg, is placed on Schoenberg’s reality show and made to believe he is in heaven in the 1920s. The show also entangles him with Schoenberg’s unhappy wife Beatrice, while Jeppe’s wife Dolly is having an affair with Erik, one of the camera operators. The story ends with Jeppe and Beatrice together and Schoenberg publishing Jeppe’s novel.
Jessika
A Czech-language opera based on Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice and named for the character Jessica.
Jessonda
Jessonda, a rajah’s widow, is ordered to die on his funeral pyre. Nadori, the young Brahmin sent to deliver the order, loves her sister Amazili and vows to save Jessonda. Portuguese general Tristan d’Acunha discovers that she was his former love; after a breach of the truce gives him an opening, he rescues her before the chief Brahmin can carry out the sacrifice.
Joanna
In Madras, Amélie lives with her husband under the name Joanna, while he works as a carpenter under the name Charles. Charles grows jealous of the young officer Édouard and challenges him to a duel. The governor intervenes and discovers that Charles and Édouard are both his sons. Édouard is only lightly wounded, and the brothers embrace.
Jocelyn
A four-act opera set in Grenoble and the surrounding mountains during Corpus Christi at the close of the eighteenth century, based on a poem by Alphonse de Lamartine.
Joe Hill: the Man Who Never Died
A biographical opera about Swedish immigrant Joe Hill, a union activist and songwriter who was controversially convicted of murder and executed in 1915.
John Socman
In Wiltshire after the Battle of Agincourt, archer Richard returns from France and finds his sweetheart Sybil pursued by magistrate John Socman. Socman wants to force her to marry him to prevent the execution of her father, a follower of John Wycliffe. Socman is ultimately revealed to have abandoned a wife years before.
Jone, ossia L’ultimo giorno di Pompei
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.
Jonny spielt auf
The composer Max leaves Anita to pursue an elusive musical sound, while jazz violinist Jonny steals a celebrated violin and places it in Anita’s banjo case. A chain of misunderstandings leads to Max’s arrest and Daniello’s accidental death; Jonny eventually helps Max escape and reunite with Anita as he leads a fantastical dance.
Joseph
Years after his brothers sold him into slavery, Joseph has risen to power in Egypt under the name Cleophas. During a famine, his brothers come to his palace for food without recognizing him. He learns that Jacob has also come to Egypt, and Simeon admits the brothers’ crime to their father. Joseph and Benjamin plead for mercy; Jacob relents, and Joseph reveals his identity and secures sanctuary for his family.
Jubilee
A three-act opera based on Margaret Walker’s novel about the life of Vyry, a woman born into slavery who later lives as a free woman during Reconstruction.
Judith
During the Assyrian siege of Bethulia, Judith resolves to save the city rather than wait for surrender. She enters Holofernes’ camp, wins his trust and decapitates him while he is drunk. Judith returns with his head, and the Assyrians flee as the people praise God for their deliverance.
Judith
A two-act opera by Siegfried Matthus, who wrote the libretto using Friedrich Hebbel’s tragedy Judith and texts from the Old Testament. The score also incorporates material from Matthus’s earlier orchestral work Holofernes-Porträt. No plot description is available in the reviewed text.
Juha
Marja leaves her husband Juha for Karelian merchant Shemeikka. Juha believes she was abducted, but finds her at Shemeikka’s home. He kills Shemeikka; when Marja confirms she left willingly, Juha throws himself into the rapids.
Juha
Marja leaves her older husband Juha for the merchant Shemeikka, who soon tires of her and sends her back after she becomes pregnant. Juha welcomes her home, believing she was taken by force, and accompanies her to retrieve their child. When Anja reveals that Marja left willingly, Juha runs out and throws himself into the rapids.
Julie
A one-act German-language chamber opera based on August Strindberg’s play Miss Julie.
Julie, ou Le pot de fleurs
Mondor plans for his ward Julie to marry his friend. Julie drops a flowerpot from a window to attract her lover Valcour, but it hits him; he comes upstairs and finds her with her intended groom. The groom pretends to be her uncle and questions them, then mistakes the actual uncle for his rival. The confusion is eventually resolved.
Julien, ou La vie du poète
A prologue presents Julien, a Prix de Rome winner studying at the Villa Medici in Rome. The opera then moves into imagined settings: a dreamland in Act I, the Slovakian countryside in Act II, and Brittany in Act III. Act IV returns to Montmartre, where the sudden appearance of the Temple of Beauty closes the work.
Julietta
Michel, a Parisian bookseller, searches for Julietta, whose voice has haunted him, in a town where people retain memories for only minutes. Their encounters unfold through shifting dreamlike episodes; after trying to leave, Michel hears her call and chooses to remain in the dream world with her.
Julietta
Heimo Erbse’s four-act opera adapts Kleist’s story of a widowed noblewoman who discovers she is pregnant under mysterious circumstances and seeks the child’s father. The source novel reveals the pregnancy resulted from rape.
Juno and Avos
After his wife’s death, Nikolai Rezanov organizes an expedition to California aboard Juno and Avos. He meets Conchita, the governor’s daughter, at her birthday celebration, and they fall in love and become secretly engaged. Rezanov leaves for Russia to seek permission to marry her, but falls ill and dies on the journey; Conchita later enters a Dominican monastery.
Jupiter vainqueur des Titans
A prologue and five-act tragédie en musique.
Jérusalem
Gaston is falsely accused of attempting to murder the Count of Toulouse and is exiled. During the First Crusade, he reunites with Hélène, while the repentant Roger eventually confesses his own guilt; Gaston is restored to honor before Roger dies.
Jōruri
In seventeenth-century Osaka, puppet master Yosuke falls in love with Otane, the young wife of narrator Shojo, who once saved her and was blinded for it. Shojo discovers their feelings while preparing a new play; when its parallels with their lives become unbearable, Yosuke and Otane die together.
Jūratė ir Kastytis
The sea god Perkūnas punishes Jūratė for loving the mortal Kastytis by destroying her underwater palace and leaving him chained to a rock. In the opera’s closing scene, Kastytis hears faint echoes of their former peaceful life.
Kaddara: Folkelivsbilleder fra Grønland
Four scenes offer sketches of folk life in Greenland, moving through joy and merrymaking, baseness, and sentimental outpourings.
Kain und Abel
After Adam reveals that Abel and Ada are children of his former companion Lilith, Kain resents his position in the family and his relationship with Ada is challenged. Abel returns describing a fertile land; he and Ada decide to leave together. Kain follows them and kills Abel offstage, then tells Adam, “I have killed him.”
Kalmora, or The Paternal Right of the Americans
A two-act Polish-language opera (melodrama) by Karol Kurpiński, with a libretto by Kazimierz Brodziński.
Kantan and Damask Drum
The three parts are Kantan, Damask Drum and (Un)fair Exchange. The first two draw on Japanese Noh plays and the third on a kyogen folk play. No plot details are provided.
Karabakhname
As Arif and Melek prepare to marry in Karabakh, the Stranger sheltered by Seyid joins enemies who raid the village. Arif dies, Melek freezes in the mountains, and Asli remains with her young son. The opera is set against the Karabakh War.
Karenina Anna
A Hungarian-language opera adapted from Edmond Guiraud’s 1907 French stage version of Anna Karenina.
Karl V.
This stage work with music dramatizes Emperor Charles V’s life through a sequence of flashbacks on a split stage.
Karlštejn
A Czech opera by Vítězslav Novák based on Jaroslav Vrchlický’s drama of the same name. Its plot is not summarized in the available record.
Kashchey the Deathless
The imprisoned Tsarevna longs for Ivan, while Kashchey hides his death in a tear of his daughter Kashcheyevna. Ivan resists Kashcheyevna’s enchantment; moved by the Tsarevna’s kiss, she weeps, ending Kashchey’s immortality and freeing the lovers.
Kassya
A four-act French opera based on a novella by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch.
Kateryna
The opera uses 17 figures from the traditional Eastern European Vertep Christmas play to tell its story, with folkloric rites representing the passage of years.
Katharina von Bora
Katharina von Bora is sent to a convent as a child and later escapes with other nuns after encountering Martin Luther’s writings. After a failed courtship, she marries Luther, builds a family and household with him, survives plague and personal losses, and struggles to protect her children after his death before dying from injuries sustained while fleeing plague.
Katyusha Maslova
Katyusha Maslova is seduced by Dmitri Nekhlyudov and dismissed from his aunts’ estate; after her child dies, she becomes a prostitute. She is implicated in a merchant’s murder and put on trial. Nekhlyudov later seeks her forgiveness in prison, and she joins political prisoners traveling to Siberia, where she marries another prisoner after receiving a pardon.
Kepler
Fragments from Johannes Kepler’s life and scientific ideas alternate with creation narratives and poems by Andreas Gryphius depicting Europe during the Thirty Years’ War.
Keshan Hong Ri
A six-act opera about PLA actions in Tibet at the pseudonymous Mount Ke.
Keto and Kote
Keto loves Prince Kote, but her wealthy father plans to marry her to Kote’s uncle, the impoverished Prince Levan. Two rival matchmakers complicate matters; Barbale tricks Makar into signing a marriage agreement with Kote, and the young couple wed before the adults can intervene.
Khovanshchina
Set in 1682 Moscow, the opera depicts political conflict among Prince Ivan Khovansky and the Streltsy, the Old Believers led by Dosifey, and the supporters of Tsar Peter. Khovansky is murdered, Golitsin is exiled, and the Streltsy are pardoned. Dosifey, Marfa, Andrey Khovansky, and the Old Believers ultimately die by self-immolation as Peter’s forces approach.
King Arthur
Arthur’s Britons fight the Saxons, led by King Oswald, who has abducted Arthur’s blind fiancée Emmeline. With help from Merlin and the spirit Philidel, Arthur overcomes the Saxon magician Osmond’s spells and destroys an enchanted wood. Arthur defeats Oswald in single combat but spares his life. Merlin restores Emmeline’s sight, and she and Arthur reunite.
King Harald's Saga
Harald Hardrada recounts his exploits and is persuaded by Tostig to invade England despite a warning from his dead brother Olaf. After farewell from his wives, the Norwegian army lands in England and is defeated at Stamford Bridge, where Harald dies.
King Midas’ Ears
A two-act satirical opera based on the Midas myth, featuring Midas, a barber, Apollo and Pan.
King Priam
Priam spares the infant Paris despite a prophecy, and years later welcomes him back to Troy. Paris chooses Helen, helping bring war to the city. During the siege, Hector kills Patroclus, and Achilles returns to battle. After Hector’s death, Priam asks Achilles for his son’s body and receives it. Troy falls; Priam stays behind as his family leaves, and Achilles’ son kills him.
King Roger
In 12th-century Sicily, King Roger hears charges of heresy against a young shepherd and allows him to explain himself. The shepherd’s ecstatic dance draws away much of the court; Roger follows him and, after the shepherd becomes Dionysus, greets the sunrise with a hymn.
King and Charcoal Burner
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.
Kleider machen Leute
Tailor’s apprentice Wenzel Strapinski is mistaken for a count when a coachman delivers him to Goldach. He falls in love with Nettchen but is exposed as an impostor by her rejected suitor; Nettchen chooses to marry him even if that means becoming a tailor’s wife.
Kleider machen Leute
A five-act German opera based on Gottfried Keller’s novella and set in Goldach, Switzerland.
Kleopatra
Prince Harmaki enters Queen Cleopatra’s palace intending to murder her and regain power from the Romans.
Knight Crew
A modern gangland retelling of the King Arthur legend.
Koanga
On a Louisiana plantation, enslaved African prince Koanga and Palmyra, the planter’s maid, fall in love. Overseer Perez kidnaps Palmyra to prevent their marriage; Koanga escapes, returns to rescue her and kills Perez, but is captured and executed. Palmyra takes her own life, and Uncle Joe finishes telling their story to the planter’s daughters.
Kommilitonen!
The opera interweaves three stories of student activism: James Meredith’s struggle to enter the University of Mississippi, the White Rose resistance group in Nazi Germany, and Chinese students pressured to denounce their parents during the Cultural Revolution. The narratives converge at the end.
Konrad Wallenrod
Following Adam Mickiewicz’s epic, the opera portrays Konrad Wallenrod and his wife Aldona. They sacrifice themselves in the final act, while the Teutonic Knights triumph.
Koroghlu
After the cruel Hasan khan blinds his father, the singer Rovshan takes the name Koroghlu and leads an uprising. The khan captures Koroghlu by stealing his horse, but Koroghlu escapes and returns with his rebels to free Nigar, her brother, and others condemned to execution.
Kosiki
In Japan, Prime Minister Xicoco arranges for Prince Kosiki to marry his daughter Nousima, though she loves Sagami. Kosiki pardons juggler Fitzo and appoints him adviser. It is revealed that Kosiki was born a girl and raised as a boy after the true male heir was abducted. The usurper Namitou exposes Kosiki, who flees with Fitzo. They learn Fitzo is the missing heir; he is summoned to the throne, Kosiki returns beside him, and Nousima marries Sagami.
Koukourgi
A French-language comic opera by Luigi Cherubini, reconstructed for its first performance in 2010 after remaining unperformed during the composer’s lifetime.
Koza-dereza
A mischievous goat causes a quarrel between an old man and his family, then takes over a rabbit’s home. The other animals try to persuade the goat to leave.
Krapp, ou, La dernière bande
Krapp, an aging man, listens to recordings of his younger self and revisits memories of his life. The monologue returns to a recorded account of a happy moment with a lover, while the live singer and recorded voice create a dialogue across time.
Krishna
A baritone narrator recounts 14 vignettes from the life of Krishna, mostly in English with one scene in Sanskrit. The entry does not detail the vignettes.
Krútňava
The original version is framed as a wager between a Poet and his Double over whether conscience can overcome human nature. After Jan Štelina is found murdered, his father accuses Katrena, who marries Ondrej against her will. A year later, Ondrej drinks and beats her; she confesses that Jan was her true love. Ondrej sees Jan’s ghost in the woods and resists the Double’s urging to conceal the crime. At Easter he confesses, and Katrena says the child is his. Old Štelina reconciles himself to helping raise the child. The communist-era revisions change Ondrej’s confession and the child’s paternity and fate.
Kullervo
After Unto destroys Kalervo’s house, he takes Kalervo’s son Kullervo as a slave. Kullervo grows into an angry youth, kills the smith’s wife after finding stones in his bread, and later reunites with parents who survived the fire. In a dream, Kullervo learns that the girl he seduced was his lost sister Ainikki. He retaliates against his father, burns Unto’s house and kills Unto’s clan. Finding his friend Kimmo insane, Kullervo throws himself onto a fire and dies.
Kuningas Lear
Lear disinherits Cordelia after she refuses to compete with her sisters in declarations of love, then loses his authority as Goneril and Regan reject him. Meanwhile Edmund deceives Gloucester and turns him against Edgar, who disguises himself as Poor Tom. The sisters and Edmund maneuver against Albany as the French and British prepare for battle; after Edmund loses a duel to Edgar, he orders Lear and Cordelia killed. Lear enters carrying Cordelia’s body and dies beside her.
Kuningas lähtee Ranskaan
In an encroaching ice age, the English prince becomes king and leads an army across the frozen Channel to France with four prospective brides and Parliament, represented by a giant cannon. The campaign follows the Hundred Years’ War: the English win at Crécy, then besiege Calais. The king grows increasingly cruel, ordering the English archer mutilated and threatening the starving people of Calais, though he later spares six burghers after the Queen and Caroline plead for them. He plans to conquer Paris and continue south, while chronicler Froissart asks him to read his account; the king replies that Time shaped history, not him.
Kuratov
This opera follows Komi poet Ivan Kuratov from childhood through his work as a teacher in Ust-Sysolsk and into old age in Kazakhstan. He promotes Komi culture amid opposition from local Russophile and tsarist authorities.
Kurofune
At Shimoda in the final years of the Tokugawa shogunate, loyalist samurai Yoshida calls on officials to expel foreigners. Geisha Okichi is ordered to assassinate the American consul, but becomes his mistress and struggles between her mission and his kindness. Yoshida later attacks the consulate, only for a messenger from Kyoto to announce the Emperor’s wish for peace.
Káťa Kabanová
Káťa lives under the control of her mother-in-law Kabanicha and her husband Tichon. Secretly in love with Boris, she meets him while Tichon is away. When Tichon returns, Káťa confesses their affair in front of the townspeople and flees during a storm. Boris is sent away, and Káťa throws herself into the river. Tichon tries to help her but is restrained by Kabanicha; he blames his mother for Káťa’s suicide.
König Hirsch
After the governor casts the king into the forest as a child, he returns to claim his kingdom. The governor tricks him into returning to the forest, where he becomes a stag. The king eventually returns, the governor is killed, and the king regains human form.
König Manfred
The opera depicts Manfred, the 13th-century King of Sicily, in conflict with Charles of Anjou. Its action takes place in 1266 in Naples and Benevento.
Königskinder
The Goose-Girl, held by a witch, falls in love with a King’s Son. The witch’s prophecy identifies them as the rulers destined for a nearby town, but the townspeople reject them and drive them away. Years later, exhausted and starving, the lovers seek shelter at the witch’s ruined hut and eat her enchanted death-bread, dying together. The Fiddler and the children return too late and carry them away for burial.
Kłótnia przez zakład
Karol Lipiński’s one-act Polish comic opera is based on Nikolai Kugushev’s Russian comedy The Sable Fur Coat. The available text does not provide the plot.
L'Abandon d'Ariane
L'Abandon d'Ariane is a one-act French-language opera by Darius Milhaud, with a libretto by Henri Hoppenot, based on Greek mythology. Its roles include Ariadne, Dionysus, Phaedra, and Theseus.
L'Aiglon
Napoleon II, the Duke of Reichstadt, escapes Austrian imprisonment with his faithful footman Séraphin Flambeau and visits the former battlefield at Wagram. He eventually dies of tuberculosis.
L'Angelica
In this serenata, Angelica thwarts the noble Orlando and elopes with Medoro. The work is Carvalho’s setting of Metastasio’s libretto, distinct from Nicola Porpora’s 1720 setting of the same text.
L'Armida immaginaria
A three-act Italian dramma giocoso for seven named roles, including Marchesina Tisbea, Ermidora, Stella, Masto Giorgio, and Patro Caspero.
L'Egisto
Egisto and Clori are captured by pirates and sold separately. Climene is captured on her wedding day and sold to the same master as Egisto. A year later, Egisto escorts her home to Zakynthos as they each search for their former lovers; unbeknownst to them, Clori has fallen in love with Lidio, Climene's intended husband. The gods' machinations bring further suffering before the story reaches a happy conclusion.
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