La Calisto
This mythological opera combines the story of Jupiter’s seduction of Callisto with Diana’s encounter with Endymion.
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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.
La chute de la maison Usher
Roderick Usher lives in his crumbling ancestral home with his twin sister Madeline and her doctor. Roderick’s friend arrives. After Madeline is found dead and buried in a vault, the friend reads Roderick a medieval tale as a storm rises. At its climax, Madeline appears bloodied: she was buried alive and drags her brother to his death. The house collapses as the friend escapes. Debussy’s version heightens Roderick’s incestuous feelings and makes the doctor, his rival for Madeline, more sinister.
La cifra
Scottish lord Fideling searches for a lost noblewoman he once loved. Mayor’s daughter Lisotta is betrothed to Sandrino but believes she is the woman he seeks, while shepherdess Eurilla loves Fideling; Eurilla’s noble birth is revealed, and she and Fideling reunite.
La cigale et la fourmi
In eighteenth-century Flanders, prudent Charlotte and impulsive Thérèse are cousins. Thérèse leaves the village for Bruges, becomes a florist and then an opera singer under a duke’s patronage. She discovers that the duke and Frantz have used her as cover for their affair with the duchess. Thérèse publicly exposes the deception and leaves the city. Months later, she returns exhausted and dreams that her family rejects her; they find and comfort her. Frantz’s love proves sincere, and Thérèse accepts his proposal.
La circassienne
Lieutenant Alexis Zouboff once escaped a Russian general’s advances by disguising himself as Prascovia. When he revives the disguise during an amateur play, he is captured with Olga by a Circassian sultan, but the sultan’s other wives help them escape. Back in Moscow, Alexis wins Olga’s hand, while their friend Lanskoi invents letters that convince Orsakoff that Prascovia has died for love of him.
La clemenza di Tito
Antonio Caldara’s original setting of Metastasio’s libretto La clemenza di Tito, featuring the Roman emperor Tito and the characters Sesto, Annio, Vitellia, Servilia, and Publio.
La clemenza di Tito
Set in Rome in 79 AD, Vitellia persuades Sextus, who loves her, to join a plot to assassinate Emperor Titus. The Capitol burns, but Titus survives. Sextus is exposed and condemned by the Senate; Titus tears up the death sentence. Vitellia confesses her role, and Titus pardons the conspirators, including her, and grants a double wedding for Sextus and Vitellia and for Annius and Servilia.
La clemenza di Tito
Vitellia plots revenge against Emperor Tito by persuading Sesto to assassinate him. The conspiracy fails, and the Senate condemns Sesto, but Tito tears up the death warrant and extends clemency to both Sesto and Vitellia after she confesses; marriages unite the two couples.
La clemenza di Tito
Vitellia, daughter of a deposed emperor, seeks revenge against Tito and persuades Sesto, who loves her, to join a plot against him. Sesto takes part in an attack on the Capitol, believing Tito has been killed, but the emperor survives. The Senate condemns Sesto, and Tito initially accepts the verdict. After wrestling with the decision, Tito destroys the execution warrant and chooses mercy. Vitellia confesses that she instigated the plot; Tito pardons her as well as Sesto, and the people praise his generosity.
La contadina in corte
A two-act Italian opera buffa, originally an intermezzo for four roles, composed by Antonio Sacchini to a libretto by Niccolò Tassi.
La corona
Princess Atalanta decides to free Kalydon from the Calydonian boar. She wounds it so Prince Meleagro can kill it, then insists he receive the credit. They ultimately dedicate the honor to Diana.
La costanza trionfante degl’amori e degl’odii
An Italian dramma per musica by Antonio Vivaldi, revived in 1718 under the title Artabano, re de’ Parti.
La cour de Célimène
A widowed Countess enjoys the attention of twelve suitors, while her sister the Baroness disapproves. When the Countess’s engagement to the Commander is revealed, he and a new Chevalier challenge each other to a duel; the Countess keeps each suitor hoping until the Commander and Chevalier instead turn toward the Baroness, then accepts the Commander herself.
La croce d’oro
Henrique Oswald’s first opera is a three-act Italian work whose 237-page manuscript score contains recitatives, arias, duets, quartets, choruses, and intermezzi.
La créole
In 1685, sea-captain Adhémar plans to marry his ward Antoinette to his nephew René, though Antoinette loves the lawyer Frontignac and René longs for Dora, a Creole girl he met in Guadeloupe. When Adhémar returns with Dora, Antoinette and René pretend to be married to conceal their own arrangements. A letter aboard ship leads Adhémar to permit René and Dora to wed.
La dama boba
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari’s three-act commedia lirica adapts Lope de Vega’s 1613 play La dama boba. The available text does not provide the plot.
La dame blanche
In Scotland, Anna disguises herself as the White Lady to protect the Avenel estate from steward Gaveston. She guides the English officer Georges Brown to buy the estate at auction and later discovers he is the missing Julien Avenel. With the Avenel treasure revealed, Julien and Anna are reunited.
La danza
At sunset shepherd Tirsi bids farewell to Nice, who is leaving to dance. He admits jealousy of her other admirers; after an argument, the lovers swear fidelity.
La descente d'Orphée aux enfers
After Euridice dies from a snakebite on their wedding day, Orphée follows her to the underworld. His music soothes the condemned and persuades Pluton to let him return with Euridice, provided he does not look back at her before they leave the realm of the dead.
La diavolessa
Poor lovers Giannino and Dorina scheme with innkeeper Falco to deceive treasure-seeker Don Poppone. Poppone mistakes them and the visiting Count and Countess for other guests, including Turks, amid a series of misunderstandings. Disguised as devils, Dorina and Giannino terrify and beat Poppone while pretending to search for his treasure. After the truth emerges, Falco explains the deception; Giannino inherits a fortune, Poppone forgives the couple, and agrees to marry Ghiandina.
La divisione del mondo
After the Titans are defeated, the Olympian gods divide the world. Venus drives the central conflict by tempting the other gods into debauchery; Saturn is the exception.
La donna del lago
King James, traveling in disguise as Uberto, falls in love with Elena, who loves Malcolm but is betrothed to rebel leader Rodrigo. During the Scottish uprising Rodrigo is killed, while Elena uses Uberto’s ring to plead for her father and Malcolm; the king pardons them and blesses Elena and Malcolm’s union.
La donna serpente
King Altidòr falls in love with fairy Miranda. Her father curses him that if he curses her, she will turn into a snake.
La falena
The source identifies the principal characters as Albina, King Stellio, Uberto and Falena, and refers to a conflict between a virtuous king and an evil protagonist.
La fanciulla del West
During the California Gold Rush, Minnie runs the Polka saloon and guards the gold the miners have collected. She becomes close to Dick Johnson, whom she had met earlier, and learns that he is the bandit Ramerrez. When Sheriff Jack Rance captures Johnson, Minnie wagers her future against Rance at poker and wins his release. Johnson is captured again, but Minnie persuades the miners to spare him by reminding them of all she has done for them. They forgive him, and Minnie and Johnson leave California to begin a new life.
La farsa amorosa
Riccardo Zandonai’s three-act comic opera adapts Alarcón’s novel El sombrero de tres picos. The libretto moves the action to Lombardy while retaining Spanish names and includes two love-lorn donkeys, Ciccio and Checca.
La fausse esclave
An intrigue is devised to secure a father’s consent to his daughter’s marriage.
La fauvette du temple
In 1840, flower-seller Thérèse’s fiancé Pierre is sent to Algeria for military service. She follows him with her friend Zélie and singing teacher Saint-Angénor; after a series of captures and rescues, Pierre and Thérèse reunite.
La favorite
Fernand leaves a monastery to seek the woman he loves, Léonor, without knowing she is the mistress of Alphonse, King of Castile. After Fernand distinguishes himself in battle, the king agrees to his request to marry Léonor. She tries to tell Fernand about her past, but her messenger is arrested, and Fernand learns the truth only after the wedding. He breaks his sword and leaves her to return to religious life. The king’s wife dies, and Léonor arrives at the monastery exhausted. Fernand finally accepts her, but she collapses and dies in his arms.
La fedeltà premiata
In Cumae, lovers are sacrificed to a lake monster until a faithful lover offers his life. The priest Melibeo manipulates several couples in pursuit of Amaranta and tries to arrange a match between Celia and Lindoro. Celia is in love with Fileno, who believes she is dead. Melibeo frames Celia and the cowardly Count Perrucchetto as lovers and sends them to be sacrificed. Fileno offers his own life to save Celia; the monster becomes Diana, who accepts his selfless act and ends the city’s curse. Diana strikes down Melibeo, and the three couples unite.
La festa d'Imeneo
Nicola Porpora’s serenata, with a libretto by Paolo Rolli, was composed to mark the marriage of Frederick, Prince of Wales, and Augusta of Saxe-Gotha. The available text does not provide its plot.
La fiamma
Silvana, daughter of a woman accused of witchcraft, loves her stepson Donello. After her husband Basilio dies, his mother accuses Silvana of causing his death by sorcery. Unable to swear an oath of innocence, Silvana is condemned as a witch.
La fida ninfa
An opera by Vivaldi to a libretto by Scipione Maffei.
La fiera di Venezia
A three-act Italian opera buffa, or commedia per musica, by Antonio Salieri with a libretto by Giovanni Gastone Boccherini.
La figlia del mago
Prince Tenor returns from an exotic land with Princess Soprano, but his father King Baritone rejects her as a foreigner and daughter of a sorcerer. Her father King Bass tries to take her home and magically turns exotic animals against Baritone’s court. Tenor saves his father but is still denied permission to marry. That night King Bass’s sea monster attacks Baritone, and Tenor drives it away. Baritone wakes, sees Tenor with a sword and falsely accuses him of attempted patricide, condemning the couple to death. King Bass arrives to rescue Soprano, who takes his wand and enchants the two fathers into a frantic dance until they consent to the marriage. Everyone celebrates.
La figlia di Iorio
At a wedding in Lama dei Peligni, villagers accuse Mila of witchcraft and demand her death. Aligi, who loves her, breaks off his arranged marriage and leaves with her for a cave. He travels to Rome to appeal to the Pope. While Aligi is away, the villagers burn Mila alive.
La fille du régiment
During the Napoleonic Wars, Marie, a canteen girl raised by the Twenty-First Regiment after being found as a baby, falls in love with Tyrolean Tonio. The Marquise of Berkenfield takes Marie to her castle and tells her she is the daughter of an aristocratic family. Marie is later revealed to be the Marquise’s own daughter. After the regiment arrives and recounts Marie’s upbringing, the Marquise accepts her love for Tonio and consents to their marriage.
La fille du tambour-major
During the French occupation of northern Italy, convent pupil Stella falls in love with Lieutenant Robert. She discovers that her true father is Monthabor, the French drum-major, and rejects the aristocratic identity imposed on her. After disguises and military reversals thwart a forced marriage to Bambini, Stella and Robert reunite, while Claudine pairs with Griolet.
La finta giardiniera
An opera by Pasquale Anfossi to the libretto commonly attributed to Giuseppe Petrosellini, though another attribution is reported. This is Anfossi’s setting, distinct from Mozart’s later opera to the same libretto. No plot description is available in the reviewed text.
La finta giardiniera
The Marchioness Violante, presumed dead after Belfiore stabbed her, hides as the gardener Sandrina with her servant Roberto. At Don Anchise’s estate she encounters Belfiore, now engaged to Arminda. After Arminda abducts her, Violante and Belfiore lose their senses, then recover and reunite; Arminda returns to Ramiro and Roberto pairs with Serpetta.
La finta parigina
A three-act Italian comic opera about the amorous misadventures of a group that includes the innkeeper Cardillo, his sister Rosalina, local nobles, a French doctor, and Donna Armida, called the “fake Parisienne.”
La finta pazza
On Skyros, Achilles lives disguised as a princess to escape the coming Trojan War. His lover Deidamia, with whom he has a son, feigns madness to keep him on the island when Ulysses and Diomedes arrive seeking allies. Achilles and Deidamia marry and leave together.
La finta pazza Licori
Unfinished comic opera about Licori, who disguises herself first as a man and then as a woman and feigns madness to win her lover Aminta.
La finta savia
A sequel to La finta pazza, this opera uses a Latin story that looks toward the future founding of Rome.
La finta semplice
At Cassandro’s estate near Cremona, Fracasso and Simone love Giacinta and Ninetta, but the brothers Cassandro and Polidoro oppose marriage. Rosina feigns naïveté, makes both brothers fall for her, and helps secure the couples’ marriages. The brothers believe Giacinta and Ninetta have fled with the family money and promise the finder a marriage and the loot. In the end, the young couples are united; Rosina marries Cassandro, leaving Polidoro alone.
La forza del destino
Leonora and Don Alvaro plan to elope, but when her father discovers them, Alvaro’s pistol accidentally kills him. Leonora and Alvaro are separated, and her brother Carlo seeks revenge. Leonora takes refuge as a hermit, while Alvaro joins the Spanish army under an assumed name and becomes friends with Carlo, who is also disguised. Carlo discovers Alvaro’s identity, and the two men repeatedly confront each other. In the revised ending, Carlo mortally wounds Leonora before Alvaro can reunite with her; the Father Superior urges Alvaro to seek forgiveness. In the original version, Alvaro kills Carlo and then throws himself into a ravine.
La fuga in maschera
Comic opera by Gaspare Spontini; the plot is not summarized.
La fée Urgèle, ou Ce qui plaît aux dames
Knight Robert is imprisoned in a seventh-century French court controlled by women and must answer the question of what gives women the most pleasure. He must agree to marry an old woman, who is transformed into the beautiful Marton.
La gazza ladra
Ninetta, a servant, is in love with Giannetto, whose mother Lucia accuses her of stealing a silver spoon. Ninetta is also hiding her father Fernando, a deserter sentenced to death. She sells family silver to help him, and the mayor uses the transaction to strengthen the theft accusation. Ninetta is tried and condemned. Fernando arrives with a royal pardon, while Pippo and Antonio discover that a magpie took the missing silver. Ninetta is released and reunited with Giannetto.
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