L'Europe galante
An opéra-ballet whose prologue and four entrées explore love in France, Spain, Italy, and Turkey. The sections share a theme rather than one continuous narrative.
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Aribert Reimann combines three Maeterlinck plays into a single opera linked by fate, death, and unseen characters. The sections present a domestic tragedy with supernatural overtones, a family tragedy involving suicide, and a medieval tale of murder driven by the pursuit of power.
L'Italiana in Londra
At Madama Brillante’s London inn, the guests include a homesick Neapolitan, a Dutch merchant and an English lord. Livia, an Italian woman who has disguised her origins, has been jilted by the lord, while both the innkeeper and Polidoro pursue her; a day of misunderstandings involving a stone said to grant invisibility ends happily.
L'Olimpiade
A three-act dramma per musica by Pergolesi, based on Pietro Metastasio’s libretto of the same title.
L'Orestie d'Eschyle
Darius Milhaud’s French-language operatic setting of Aeschylus’s Oresteia triptych, comprising Agamemnon, Les Choéphores, and Les Euménides.
L'Orfeo
At their wedding in Thrace, Orfeo and Euridice celebrate their love. A messenger arrives with news that Euridice has died from a snakebite. Orfeo descends to the Underworld and persuades Pluto to release her, on the condition that he not look back as they return. Doubt overcomes Orfeo and he turns to look; Euridice vanishes. In the ending used in Monteverdi’s 1609 score, Apollo descends and invites Orfeo to join him in the heavens, where he may see Euridice among the stars. The original 1607 libretto instead ends with Bacchantes threatening Orfeo, leaving his fate uncertain.
L'Orione
An Italian opera in a prologue and three acts about the mythological hunter Orion.
L'Upupa und der Triumph der Sohnesliebe
Al Radshi sends his three sons to find his vanished golden hoopoe, but only the honest Al Kasim undertakes the quest. With a demon’s help, he finds the bird, rescues a captive princess, and obtains a magic chest. His jealous brothers push him and the princess into a well and claim his achievements, but the pair are rescued and the brothers expelled. Al Kasim must complete another quest before he can marry the princess, and the ending leaves their union unresolved.
L'ajo nell'imbarazzo
Marquis Giulio has raised his sons in ignorance, but Enrico has secretly married Gilda and has a child. Enrico asks his tutor Gregorio to help conceal the marriage, leading to a farce in which Gilda is hidden and the baby is smuggled into the house. When the truth emerges, Giulio accepts the marriage and entrusts his younger son to Enrico’s guidance.
L'alcôve
During the French Revolution, General Raymond encounters the peasant Sauvageot, who pretends Marielle is his wife. Raymond protects the young Comte Anatole d’Ambert, sends Sauvageot to the army, and marries Marielle.
L'amant anonyme
The wealthy young widow Léontine resists falling in love again after a cold marriage, though she receives gifts and letters from an anonymous admirer. The admirer is her friend Valcour, who fears that his lower birth will prevent her from loving him and hides his feelings. Their friends’ awkward efforts to reveal the truth eventually succeed, and Léontine and Valcour unite.
L'amant statue
A one-act French opera for four principal roles: Célimène, Rosette, Dorval, and Frontin.
L'ambassadrice
Three-act French opéra comique by Daniel Auber.
L'americano
Villotto, an American visiting the California peninsula, befriends the aristocrat Lisandro, who takes him to Europe. Villotto’s social missteps upset Lisandro’s fiancée Aurora, while Lisandro falls for Aurora’s friend Silvia. After a series of misadventures, Aurora ends up with Lisandro and Villotto with Silvia.
L'amico Fritz
Wealthy landowner Fritz bets the rabbi David that he will never marry, while David sees Suzel, the daughter of one of Fritz’s tenants, as a suitable bride. Fritz helps Suzel pick cherries and realizes he loves her, then becomes jealous when David says she is engaged. Suzel and Fritz declare their love, and David gives Fritz’s wagered vineyard to Suzel as a wedding gift.
L'amor coniugale
Sentimental farce about a wife, Zeliska, and her imprisoned husband, Amorveno, with the jailer Peters, his daughter Floreska, and the governor also involved.
L'amour masqué
Elle plans to marry neither of her wealthy suitors, while longing for the young man in a portrait. His older owner disguises himself as his own son for a masked ball, where Elle unknowingly falls for him; a rose thorn later reveals his identity, and she accepts both apparent father and son as one lover.
L'ancêtre
Set in Corsica during the First French Empire, the opera involves the families Piétra Néra and Fabiani, including Nunciata, her granddaughter Vanina, and Vanina’s foster sister Margarita.
L'arbore di Diana
Diana attempts to protect her island as a stronghold of chastity, but her defenses weaken when she encounters the handsome shepherd Doristo.
L'arlesiana
Federico loves an unnamed woman from Arles, but his family learns she has another lover. His mother urges him to marry Vivetta, who also loves him; after a renewed bout of jealousy, Federico becomes delirious and jumps from a hayloft to his death.
L'assedio di Calais
During the English siege of Calais, Aurelio returns to the city and joins his family and fellow citizens in resisting the attack. The mayor Eustachio and five other men volunteer as hostages to spare the city; as Edward III prepares to execute them, Queen Isabella pleads for their lives and persuades him to pardon them.
L'elisir d'amore
Nemorino, a poor peasant, loves Adina, a wealthy landowner, but she rebuffs him. He buys a bottle of red wine from the traveling quack Dulcamara, believing it to be a love potion. After he acts indifferent, Adina agrees to marry Sergeant Belcore, first in six days and then before Belcore’s regiment departs. Nemorino enlists for money to buy more of the fake elixir. Meanwhile, Adina learns of Nemorino’s devotion and buys back his military contract. She declares her love, and the couple reconcile. Nemorino also learns he has inherited money from his uncle, while Dulcamara credits the elixir for the happy outcome.
L'empio punito
Early Italian opera on the Don Juan subject.
L'enfant prodigue
Grand opera adaptation of the Parable of the Prodigal Son from the Gospel of Luke.
L'esule di Granata
In fifteenth-century Granada, Almanzor, an Abencerrage ruler, falls in love with Azema, a Zegri princess. Her exiled father plots to kill Almanzor, but the conspiracy is uncovered. Almanzor forgives him at Azema’s request, and the couple marry.
L'esule di Roma, ossia Il proscritto
Septimius, a tribune exiled for political reasons, secretly returns to Rome to see Argelia, daughter of the senator Murena. After Murena condemns him, he resolves to die rather than escape; remorse drives Murena to confess, and the emperor pardons both men.
L'heure espagnole
In 18th-century Toledo, clockmaker Torquemada leaves his shop to tend the municipal clocks. His wife Concepción uses his absence to arrange assignations with poet Gonzalve and banker Don Iñigo. Muleteer Ramiro repeatedly carries grandfather clocks upstairs, hiding the men inside them. When Torquemada returns, the two men are trapped in clocks, which they eventually escape and buy to preserve their dignity. Lukas, suspecting an affair, goes to the Corregidor’s house wearing the official’s clothes. The Corregidora untangles the confusion and reconciles Lukas and Concepción.
L'heureux malgré lui
Méhul's one-act opéra bouffon premiered at the Opéra-Comique in 1803 and received only two performances.
L'hôtellerie portugaise
One-act French opéra comique.
L'impresario in angustie
A one-act Italian farsa with seven roles, including Fiordispina, Doralba, Merlina, Don Cristobolo, and Don Perizonio Fattapane.
L'incoronazione di Dario
Perti’s three-act opera dramatizes Dario’s claim to the throne of Cyrus. Its cast includes rival claimants, Cyrus’s daughters and the ghost of Cyrus; the source does not give a plot summary.
L'incoronazione di Poppea
In Rome around AD 60, Poppea’s affair with Emperor Nerone displaces both his wife Ottavia and her former lover Ottone. Seneca warns Nerone against divorcing Ottavia and marrying Poppea, so Nerone orders Seneca to commit suicide. Ottavia then orders Ottone to kill Poppea, but Cupid prevents the attempt. When Ottone confesses and takes the blame to protect Drusilla, Nerone spares them but banishes them and Ottavia. Nerone crowns Poppea empress, and they celebrate their union in a duet.
L'inimico delle donne
The three-act comic opera has a cast including Agnesina, Zon-Zon (emperor of China), and Xunchia, among others. The entry does not describe the plot.
L'irato, ou L'emporté
The hot-tempered Pandolphe plans to disinherit his nephew Lysandre and marry Isabelle to his former tutor, Balouard. With help from Scapin and Nérine, Isabelle feigns fickleness so Balouard rejects the match; after a drunken diversion and escape from confinement, Lysandre and Isabelle win Pandolphe’s blessing.
L'isola disabitata
Costanza and her sister Silvia live on a remote island after Costanza was abandoned by Gernando. When Gernando and Enrico arrive, misunderstandings and new affections give way to reunion: Enrico explains the truth, and Gernando and Costanza are reconciled while Enrico proposes to Silvia.
L'italiana in Algeri
In Algiers, Bey Mustafà plans to marry his Italian slave Lindoro to his wife Elvira, while seeking a new Italian woman for himself. Isabella, who is searching for Lindoro, is captured with her companion Taddeo. Reunited, Isabella and Lindoro plan to escape. Isabella tricks Mustafà into accepting the role of pappataci, which requires him to eat, drink, and remain silent. The Italians escape while Mustafà is distracted, and he reconciles with Elvira.
L'oca del Cairo
Marquess Don Pippo keeps his daughter Celidora confined in a tower. She is promised to Count Lionetto but loves Biondello. Biondello wagers that he can rescue her within a year and get her hand in marriage. He is smuggled into the tower garden inside a large mechanical goose and succeeds. Mozart’s musical setting is incomplete, though Varesco’s full libretto survives.
L'oracolo
A one-act opera set in San Francisco’s Chinatown, based on Chester Bailey Fernald’s drama The Cat and the Cherub. The described roles include the opium-den owner Cim-Fen, but the entry gives no plot synopsis.
L'oriflamme
Villagers prepare to celebrate Nazir and Amasie's wedding, but news arrives that the Saracens are ravaging the land. They postpone the wedding and, inspired by a knight carrying Charles Martel's oriflamme, take up arms and sing patriotic hymns before going to battle.
L'oro
Giovanni tries to modernize his community, but a gold discovery turns the farmers toward easy wealth. He hides his own discovery to prevent greed; his wife Cristina blows up the cave to keep others from reaching the gold. Though she survives the explosion briefly, her sacrifice restores the community’s harmony and she dies after asking Giovanni to continue his work.
L'Étoile de Séville
Balfe’s four-act French grand opera adapts Andrés de Claramonte’s play La Estrella de Sevilla. Its roles include Estrella, Zaïda, Don Sanche, Don Bustos and the King.
L'île du rêve
A three-act French opera set in Polynesia, adapted from Pierre Loti’s semi-autobiographical novel Rarahu, also titled Le Mariage de Loti. It was Reynaldo Hahn’s first opera. No plot description is available in the reviewed text.
L.I.T.A.N.I.E.S
Twelve lyrical litanies trace a human life through encounter, blooming, yearning, fragmentation, abandonment, gathering, transformation, love, and renewed divine presence. The work frames these pieces as petitions to a divine maker for cosmic recognition.
La Basoche
In Paris in 1514, law-clerk guild members elect Clément Marot as their ceremonial king. Because the guild’s king must be unmarried, Clément hides his wife Colette. When Colette arrives at the tavern where King Louis XII will meet his new bride, Princess Mary, both women mistake Clément for the real king. The confusions continue as Colette is taken to the palace and Louis mistakes her for his wife. The Basoche procession reveals the identities; Roland is arrested in Clément’s place, and Louis pardons Clément, who leaves Paris with Colette. Louis marries Mary.
La Belle au bois dormant
This three-act French opera adapts Charles Perrault’s Sleeping Beauty fairy tale, with roles for Aurora, the Prince, Carabosse, the Queen, and King Florestan.
La Belle au bois dormant
Princess Loyse wakes from a hundred-year sleep and falls in love with Olivier, the falconer who accompanies the timid Prince Charming. An old wizard has vowed that she will scorn the prince; Loyse must marry him by midnight or sleep another century. A fairy reveals that the supposed prince is actually a forester’s son, while the real prince was raised by the forester’s family. Loyse marries Olivier, who assumes his true identity.
La Belle et la Bête
Belle’s father is condemned by the Beast for taking a rose, so Belle offers herself in his place. She gradually comes to trust the Beast, but returns home to visit her ailing father; her siblings steal the key to the Beast’s pavilion, and Avenant dies trying to enter. His death breaks the curse, transforming the Beast into Prince Ardent, whom Belle marries.
La Béarnaise
Captain Perpignac violates King Henri’s order to avoid women and pursues Bianca. His cousin Jacquette disguises herself as a man and intervenes; Bianca ultimately marries Pomponio, while Jacquette returns to Béarn with Perpignac.
La Calisto
This mythological opera combines the story of Jupiter’s seduction of Callisto with Diana’s encounter with Endymion.
La Calliroe
An Italian opera seria in three acts by Josef Mysliveček, setting Mattia Verazi’s libretto based on legends about the Oceanid Callirrhoe.
La Camargo
At the Paris Opera, Mandrin poses as the Chevalier de Valjoly while pursuing dancer La Camargo. Spanish aristocrat Juana recognizes him as the robber who visited her during a confusing dream, but protects his identity and hides a stolen necklace. Mandrin later captures Camargo and others at his castle. After the prisoners escape, Mandrin disguises himself as a detective, but Camargo learns of his plan to abduct her. Disguised as a street performer, she exposes him to Juana; when Pontcalé’s troops surround the house, Camargo takes pity on Mandrin and lets him flee Paris.
La Carmélite
A four-act, five-scene comic opera by Reynaldo Hahn with a libretto by Catulle Mendès. The roles include Louise de La Vallière, Louis XIV, and the Archbishop. No plot description or exact premiere date is available in the reviewed text.
La Celestina
Opera by Flavio Testi based on Fernando de Rojas’s La Celestina.
La Cenerentola
Angelina, called Cenerentola, is made to serve her stepfather Don Magnifico and stepsisters Clorinda and Tisbe. Prince Ramiro, disguised as his own valet, meets her, while his valet Dandini poses as the prince. Alidoro brings Angelina to the ball, where she and Ramiro fall in love. She leaves him a matching bracelet as a clue. Ramiro finds her again after his carriage breaks down outside her home. They marry, and Angelina forgives her family.
La Cenicienta
A three-act children’s opera based on Charles Perrault’s Cinderella fairy tale, written for performance by children.
La Chartreuse de Parme
Fabrice del Dongo meets Clélia when her father is stopped by police and offers her a seat in his carriage. His aunt Gina works with Milanese liberals to free him from Austrian authorities. Fabrice and Clélia fall in love, but a misunderstanding separates them. After a duel forces him to flee, Fabrice is imprisoned in Parma, where Clélia visits him. She agrees to marry the Marquis Crescenzi but helps Gina free Fabrice, promising to help him and then never see him again. After the prince’s death, Fabrice returns to Parma and meets Clélia at the charterhouse, where he blesses her marriage. He retreats into religious orders and prays for forgiveness.
La Circe
An opera by Pietro Andrea Ziani based on Greek legends about the sorceress Circe, with a libretto by Cristoforo Ivanovich. It was first performed for Emperor Leopold I’s birthday. No plot description is available in the reviewed text.
La Circe
An Italian opera seria in three acts by Josef Mysliveček, set to Domenico Perelli’s original libretto based on Greek legends of the sorceress Circe.
La Cleopatra
A two-act Italian opera seria about Cleopatra, composed for performance at the Hermitage Theatre in Saint Petersburg.
La Colombe
In Florence, the impoverished Horace refuses to sell his beloved dove to Maître Jean, majordomo to Countess Sylvie, who wants it to rival Aminte’s trained parrot. Sylvie learns that Horace loves her and visits him, where he happily invites her to dinner. Unable to obtain food on credit, Horace and his servant Mazet decide to kill the dove for the meal. When they serve a roasted bird, it proves to be Aminte’s escaped parrot. Sylvie is pleased that Horace’s dove is alive and will remain a reminder of his love.
La Commedia
A multilingual film opera retelling Dante’s Divine Comedy, with a libretto also drawing on the Old Testament and poetry by Joost van den Vondel.
La Conquista
Through Marina's dreams of a distant past, the opera depicts the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire. Moctezuma receives warnings of the Spanish arrival, while Cortés advances toward Tenochtitlan and the two leaders meet. Alvarado's massacre in the Great Temple sparks revolt; Moctezuma dies in captivity, and the Spanish retreat from the city in 1521.
La Curandera
An opera set in Mexico.
La Cythère assiégée
The page documents the work’s musical and theatrical revisions but provides no plot synopsis.
La Dafne
Apollo kills the Python, which had terrorized Delos. Cupid and Venus punish his pride by making him fall in love with the nymph Daphne, while another arrow makes her flee from him. Daphne calls to her mother for help and is transformed into a laurel tree. Apollo makes the laurel his enduring emblem.
La Damnation de Faust
Disillusioned with life, the scholar Faust accepts Méphistophélès’s offer of a journey and is shown Marguerite, with whom he falls in love. After seducing and abandoning her, he learns that she faces execution after accidentally killing her mother with a sleeping potion he supplied. Faust agrees to surrender his soul in exchange for her rescue, but Méphistophélès takes him to hell; Marguerite is saved and welcomed into heaven.
La Didone
Cavalli and Busenello adapt Book IV of Virgil’s Aeneid but replace Dido’s suicide after Aeneas leaves her with a happy ending: Iarbas, king of the Getuli, saves Dido from herself and marries her. The opera is structured as a prologue and three acts.
La Dolores
Dolores works at an inn in 1830s Calatayud. The role descriptions identify her former lover Melchor, seminarian Lázaro who loves her, and wealthy Patricio; the source provides only a brief opening description rather than the opera’s full plot.
La Dori
Dori, a princess kidnapped as a child and raised as an Egyptian royal, disguises herself as a male slave to find Oronte, her beloved. She is sold to her real sister Arsinoe, while Egyptian prince Tolomeo disguises himself as a woman to approach Arsinoe. After a series of mistaken identities, Dori’s origins are revealed and she marries Oronte; Arsinoe and Tolomeo also marry.
La Doriclea
Three couples experience the vicissitudes and pleasures of love.
La Délivrance de Thésée
Hippolyte’s love for Aricie arouses the jealousy of his stepmother Phèdre. After Hippolyte rejects her, Phèdre denounces him to his father, Thésée, who arranges his death by a monster. Théramene kills Phèdre in revenge and is then executed on Thésée’s orders. Aricie comforts the grieving Thésée.
La Esmeralda
In Paris, Esmeralda attracts the desire of Archdeacon Frollo and the love of Captain Phoebus. After Frollo wounds Phoebus, Esmeralda is imprisoned and sentenced for his supposed murder; she rejects Frollo’s offer to free her in exchange for becoming his lover. Quasimodo gives her sanctuary in Notre-Dame, and Phoebus arrives to clear her before dying in her arms; she vows to follow him.
La Flora, o vero Il natal de' fiori
At the wedding celebration of Margherita de’ Medici and Odoardo Farnese, Hymen presents the story of Chloris and Zephyrus. The gods arrange their union, but Cupid’s jealousy and Pan’s false accusation separate them, bringing storms to Tuscany. The truth is restored, spring returns, and Zephyrus transforms Chloris into Flora, goddess of flowers; Apollo celebrates Florence in the finale.
La Gioconda
In 17th-century Venice, the singer Gioconda loves Enzo, who has returned in disguise to elope with Laura, his former fiancée. The spy Barnaba exposes their plans to Laura’s husband Alvise, but Gioconda saves Laura after recognizing that she once protected Gioconda’s blind mother. Gioconda later replaces the poison Alvise gives Laura with a drug that makes her appear dead. When Enzo and Laura escape together, Gioconda faces Barnaba and stabs herself; he then reveals that he has drowned her mother.
La Juive
In Constance in 1414, Jewish goldsmith Eléazar has raised Rachel as his daughter. She falls in love with Prince Léopold, who is secretly a Christian and already married to Princess Eudoxie. When Eléazar and Rachel discover Léopold’s identity, they are arrested alongside him. At first Cardinal Brogni offers to spare them if they convert, but Eléazar refuses. He reveals that Rachel is not his biological daughter and that Brogni’s infant daughter survived the fire that destroyed his home years earlier. Eléazar can save Rachel by disclosing that she is Christian, but she refuses to convert. At the gallows, Eléazar tells Brogni that Rachel is his daughter and points to the boiling cauldron where she is to die. Eléazar and Rachel are executed.
La Loba Negra
Governor Fernando Bustamante confronts corruption in the colonial treasury and imprisons Auditor Torralba. Clergy and officials conspire against him, and Luisa witnesses the murder of her husband and son. Grief transforms her into La Loba Negra, who begins killing friars in revenge. She later joins rebel leader Macatangay, turning her vengeance toward the liberation of the country; before her death, she blesses a future in which the struggle continues.
La Loca
Juana is passionately devoted to her husband Philip, who is unfaithful and pressures her to surrender her claim to the Spanish throne. After Philip dies, she travels with his body to Spain and sings to him. Her father Fernando tries to take the kingdom; when she refuses, he confines her in a convent and separates her from all but daughter Catalina. Later her son Carlos demands her abdication; she again refuses, and he removes Catalina and boards up her cell window. After 46 years of confinement, dying Juana is comforted by priest Miguel.
La Lodoiska
Polish princess Lodoiska loves Lovinski, but Boleslao, who is charged with her care, wants to marry her and refuses to release her. He imprisons Lovinski and Lodoiska’s father and plots the lovers’ deaths, but Tartar prince Giskano rescues them in gratitude to Lovinski.
La Légende de Saint-Julien L'hospitalier
Camille Erlanger’s first opera adapts Gustave Flaubert’s story of Saint Julien l’Hospitalier. The available text does not provide the plot.
La Marjolaine
In sixteenth-century Flanders, Marjolaine marries the wealthy Baron Van der Boom after her former lover Frickel has been away for years. Annibal, leader of a group of predatory bachelors, conspires to discredit her by trapping Frickel in her bedroom. The Baron loses a wager and his fortune. Later, after learning Annibal deceived him, the Baron cannot prevent the divorce. Marjolaine rejects both the Baron and Annibal, chooses Frickel, and claims true virtue as her prize.
La Merope
The opera seria's characters include Merope, the widowed queen of Messene, her son Epitide, and Polifonte, a tyrant of Messene.
La Mère coupable
La Mère coupable is a three-act opera by Darius Milhaud, with a libretto by Madeleine Milhaud. It is based on Beaumarchais' 1792 play of the same name, the third work in his Figaro trilogy.
La Navarraise
Anita offers to assassinate an enemy commander to earn the dowry demanded by her beloved Araquil’s father. She succeeds, but Araquil dies before learning why she went to the enemy camp; on discovering the truth, he dies, and Anita loses her sanity.
La Nitteti
A three-act opera seria featuring Amasi, king of Egypt; his son Sammete; the shepherdess Beroe; princess Nitteti; and Amenofi, ruler of Cyrene.
La Passion selon Sade
An experimental chamber mystery play structured as scenes rather than a coherent narrative. A mezzo-soprano portrays Justine and Juliette, figures from de Sade’s novels, while instrumentalists also act and sing.
La Petite Mariée
San Carlo, secretly married to Graziella, hides her identity from the jealous Podestà of Bergamo, who once caught him with his own wife. At court, a chain of mistaken identities leads Rodolpho to believe he can seduce Graziella in revenge; after learning the truth and being persuaded to release the group, he lets the couple go, briefly making San Carlo fear that Graziella’s honor was the price.
La Principessa Liana
Princess Liana inherits her father’s castle, but banker Pilade plans to sell it. Pilade’s son Wilfredo loves Liana, while his former lover, the Golden Scarab, seeks reconciliation. Liana goes to Monte Carlo with her aunt Clotilde, where they lose their winnings and agree to join Zozó’s circus. Pilade disinherits Wilfredo and says he will marry Lulú, but Lulú tells Liana that Wilfredo remained devoted to her. Liana’s equestrian act succeeds, and she and Wilfredo reunite after the Golden Scarab reveals her schemes.
La Rosière de Salency
A three-act comedy with ariettes inspired by the rosière festival tradition of the French village of Salency. André Grétry later presented a new version with a reworked libretto in 1774.
La Rosmira fedele
Leonardo Vinci’s 1725 opera setting of Silvio Stampiglia’s Partenope libretto, based largely on Domenico Sarro’s earlier setting and incorporating new arias by Vinci.
La Salustia
Emperor Alessandro’s mother Giulia grows jealous of his wife Salustia and plots against her. Salustia protects Giulia from two murder attempts by her father Marziano, who is arrested and sentenced to fight a wild beast; Salustia secures his pardon. Meanwhile Albina and Claudio reconcile and marry.
La Semiramide riconosciuta
The three-act opera is based on Pietro Metastasio’s libretto Semiramide riconosciuta.
La Silvia
A three-act Italian pastoral opera. The source provides no plot summary.
La Sorcière
The opera adapts Victorien Sardou’s play La Sorcière. The entry does not describe its plot.
La Spinalba
Spinalba disguises herself as a man to discover whether her unfaithful lover Ippolito still cares for her. Her father Arsenio’s delusions create confusion, while her cousin Elisa falls for the disguised Spinalba; eventually the disguise is revealed, Arsenio recovers, and the lovers pair off.
La Statira
Statira and Barsimo compete for the throne of Persia.
La Ville morte
Amid the ruins of Mycenae, archaeologist Léonard, his sister Hebé, colleague Alexandre, and Alexandre’s wife Anne are caught in a web of lives and loves.
La Viriate
A distinct musical setting of Pietro Metastasio’s Siface re di Numidia libretto by Michelangelo Valentini. Performed during the 1761 Carnival at Teatro Omodeo, Pavia. The source provides no version-specific plot description.
La Wally
Wally loves the hunter Giuseppe Hagenbach, but her father orders her to marry Vincenzo Gellner or leave home. After her father dies, Wally learns that Hagenbach is engaged to the innkeeper Afra. When Hagenbach wins a bet to kiss Wally, she becomes furious and orders Gellner to kill him. Gellner throws Hagenbach into a ravine, but Wally rescues him. Later, in the Alps, Hagenbach returns and confesses his love. As he seeks a safe path down the mountain, his call triggers an avalanche that carries him away. Wally throws herself from the precipice.
La barcarolle, ou L’amour et la musique
A three-act opéra comique by Daniel Auber and Eugène Scribe. The entry does not describe its plot.
La battaglia di Legnano
Arrigo returns to Milan after being presumed dead and finds that Lida, his former love, has married his friend Rolando. Arrigo joins the Knights of Death to fight the German emperor Federico Barbarossa. When Rolando discovers Lida’s note to Arrigo, he locks the pair in a tower to keep Arrigo from battle. Arrigo escapes and fights; after the Lombard League’s victory, he dies after assuring Rolando that Lida was faithful.
La bella dormente nel bosco
The opera is based on Charles Perrault’s Sleeping Beauty and features a princess, prince, king, queen, fairies, and other fairy-tale characters.
La belle Arsène
A French opéra comique, first presented in three acts and later revised into four.
La bohème
In Paris, the poet Rodolfo meets Mimì, a seamstress, and they fall in love. They join his fellow bohemian artists at Café Momus, where Marcello reunites with Musetta. Later, Rodolfo and Mimì separate because he fears her illness will worsen in poverty, but they agree to stay together through the winter. When Mimì returns gravely ill, the friends try to comfort her; she dies in the garret as Rodolfo mourns.
La bohème
In Paris, innkeeper Gaudenzio tries to evict the Bohemians, who cannot pay their bill, until Barbemuche pays for them. After Musette’s lover stops paying her debts, her furniture is seized, and the Bohemians gather in her courtyard, where a quarrel with the neighbors becomes a fight. Musette decides to leave Marcello, while Mimì leaves Rodolfo for Count Paul but later returns. In Rodolfo’s garret, Mimì arrives near death. Musette sells her jewels to buy fuel, but Mimì dies as the Christmas chimes sound.
La bonne d’enfant
Dorothée is tired of nannying and hopes marriage will make her mistress of her own home. While her employers are out, the fireman Mitouflard and chimney sweep Gargaillou both court her, leading to comic complications. She chooses Brin d’Amour, a trumpeter in the Royal Dragoons, and invites both suitors to the wedding.
La buona figliuola
Cecchina, a maid, is loved by the Marquis of Conchiglia, but their match is opposed because of her apparent social status. After jealous rivals and a succession of complications, a German soldier reveals that Cecchina is a baron’s daughter, allowing the couple to marry.
La caduta de’ giganti
The two-act dramma per musica concerns the fall of the giants.
La cambiale di matrimonio
English merchant Tobias Mill arranges a marriage contract between his daughter Fanny and Canadian businessman Slook. Fanny is secretly in love with the poor Edoardo, and she rejects Slook when he arrives. Edoardo joins her in threatening Slook, who retreats. Learning that Fanny is already in love and that Mill is treating the marriage like a business deal, Slook refuses to go through with the contract. Mill challenges him to a duel. Slook discovers Fanny and Edoardo embracing, hears their situation and promises to make Edoardo his heir so they can marry. Before the duel, Slook secretly replaces Mill’s pistol with a peace pipe. With the household pleading for an end to Mill’s financial pretensions, Slook persuades him to consent to the marriage.
La campana sommersa
When the Faun throws Enrico’s church bell into a lake, the bell maker despairs. Elf Rautendelein enters the human world and restores his strength. They fall in love, and Enrico abandons his wife Magda, who kills herself by jumping into the lake. Hearing the bell ring underwater, Enrico rejects Rautendelein. She becomes Ondino’s wife; later, as Enrico is dying, she visits him once more and kisses him.
La canterina
The singer Gasparina and her mother Apollonia take advantage of two suitors: Don Ettore, who courts Gasparina with stolen gifts, and Don Pelagio, her singing teacher and benefactor. The men discover the deception and threaten to evict the women. Gasparina persuades Don Pelagio to forgive them, then feigns a faint to secure more money and jewels. The men recognize her greed but still hand over their riches.
La capricciosa corretta
Over one day in a villa near Naples, the vain Ciprigna makes life miserable for her husband Bonario, his children, and their servants. Fiuta, Bonario's major domo, devises a series of schemes to curb her behavior. Ciprigna flirts with Lelio, who loves Isabella, and later plans to have Isabella abducted. Fiuta disguises himself as an ambassador who promises Ciprigna an imaginary kingdom. After being locked out in a storm, she asks forgiveness and agrees to change; the family reconciles.
La caravane du Caire
On a caravan to Cairo, Saint-Phar wins his freedom by helping the slave trader Husca repel an attack, but Husca keeps Saint-Phar’s wife Zélime enslaved. The Pasha buys her for his harem, and Saint-Phar attempts to rescue her. The Pasha’s guest Florestan discovers that Saint-Phar is his lost son, and the Pasha releases the couple so the family can reunite.
La casa disabitata
Callisto uses an allegedly haunted house for smuggling and keeps the orphan Annetta there, hoping to marry her. The owner, Don Raimondo, offers the house rent-free to a poor tenant, and poet Eutichio arrives with his jealous wife. Disguises and mistaken identities expose Callisto’s schemes. Raimondo and Annetta agree to marry, while Eutichio and his wife reconcile.
La casa imaginaria
Spanish-language opera by Gustavo Díaz-Jerez based on Pilar Mateos’s short story of the same title.
La catena d'Adone
Adone flees from Mars and takes refuge in the realm of the enchantress Falsirena. She falls in love with him and keeps him captive with an invisible magic chain, then disguises herself as Venere to discover whom he loves. The real goddess arrives, frees Adone, and binds Falsirena to a rock with her own chain.
La caverne
Alvar plans to elope with Léonore, but a coach accident delays him. Her fiancé, who is Alvar's friend, offers him a sedan chair. Meanwhile, Gil Blas robs Léonore's uncle Ambrosio. In a robbers' cavern, Gil Blas frees the kidnapped Léonore, and she and her rescuers escape. In the forest, the characters reunite amid gunshots, and the story ends to everyone's satisfaction.
La caverne, ou Le repentir
Gil Blas is captured by robber Rolando’s band and held in their cavern with noblewoman Séraphine. Her husband is captured while searching for her in disguise. Rolando repents and discovers he is Séraphine’s brother. Gil Blas escapes and returns with a rescue party, who free the prisoners.
La cena delle beffe
In Renaissance Florence, Giannetto engineers an elaborate revenge on Neri and Gabriello after they humiliate him and Neri takes his mistress Ginevra. Neri is driven to genuine madness; believing Gabriello is Giannetto, he kills both Gabriello and Ginevra, then realizes the truth.
La chanson de Fortunio
The elderly lawyer Fortunio suspects his young wife Laurette of an affair with his clerk Valentin and plans to dismiss him. When the clerks sing the old song Fortunio once used to seduce his employer’s wife, Fortunio recognizes his own hypocrisy. The song then magically wins new girlfriends for the clerks.
La chatte métamorphosée en femme
Guido’s cat Minette is transformed into a woman by the conjurer Dig-Dig, who claims she contains a beautiful young woman’s soul. Minette behaves like a cat and repeatedly threatens to leave; Dig-Dig and Marianne eventually reveal that Minette is Guido’s cousin and Dig-Dig is his uncle’s intendant, prompting Guido to reconsider marriage.
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