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_abraham_viktoria_und_ihr_husar_ | Viktoria und ihr Husar Synopsis
Place and time: Siberia, Japan, Hungary; after 1918.Viktoria is a Hungarian countess who believes her first love, the Hussar captain Stefan Koltay, was killed in World War I. She marries the American legate John Cunlight and resettles at the American embassy in Tokyo. Koltay reappears, ... |
_adamo_little_women_ | Little Women Synopsis |
_adams_el_niño_ | El Niño Synopsis |
_adams_i_was_looking_at_the_ceiling_and_then_i_saw_the_sky_ | I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky Synopsis
Like two of Adams' earlier works (Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer) this opera is based on actual news events in recent history. Here the event is the strong 1994 earthquake that hit the Los Angeles area, called the "Northridge earthquake" after t... |
_adams_nixon_in_china_ | Nixon in China Synopsis
Act One |
_adams_the_death_of_klinghoffer_ | The Death of Klinghoffer Synopsis
The Death of Klinghoffer offers a fictionalized account of the infamous Achille Lauro incident of 1985, in which Palestinian terrorists boarded an Italian cruise ship, held its passengers and crew hostage, and killed an elderly, Jewish, wheelchair-bound American named Leon Klinghoffer... |
_adam_le_postillon_de_lonjumeau_ | Le Postillon de Lonjumeau Synopsis
The Postilion of Longjumeau
ACT ONE
The newly married postillon (Chapelou) and his wife (Madeleine, an innkeeper) consult a clairvoyant who predicts an eventful time for them. The director of the Royal Opera (the Marquis) happens to be staying at the Inn (his carriage conveniently... |
_adam_le_toreador_ | Le Toreador Synopsis
Place: The garden of Don Belflor's house in BarcelonaAct OneCoraline, a former opera singer from Paris, is unhappily married to the retired bullfighter Don Belflor. She remembers how a flute-player, Tracolin, was in love with her. At this point, Tracolin himself appears in Barcelona, intent on ren... |
_adam_si_j_étais_roi_ | Si j'étais roi Synopsis
If I Were King |
_albert_die_toten_augen_ | Die Toten Augen Synopsis
The Dead Eyes
PRELUDE
The prelude (and postlude) relate the parable of the Good Shepherd.
ONE AND ONLY ACT
The drama takes place on the original Palm Sunday. The hunchbacked Roman ambassador Arcesius has a beautiful blind wife, Myrtocle. Jesus's healing hands restore her sight, although a vo... |
_albert_tiefland_ | Tiefland Synopsis
The Lowlands |
_alfano_cyrano_de_bergerac_ | Cyrano de Bergerac Synopsis |
_alfano_risurrezione_ | Risurrezione Synopsis
Scene: Russia and Siberia at the end of 19th centuryAct 1Prince Dimitri arrives to say goodbye to his aunt, Sophia Ivanovna, before leaving for the war. His old playmate Katiusha, a young peasant girl, is now Sophia Ivanovna's companion. Dimitri is overjoyed to meet her again and that night becom... |
_alfano_sakùntala_ | Sakùntala Synopsis
Act I. The King encounters Sakùntala while hunting with his men near the remote woodland monastery where she lives. The King woos her, and overcoming her initial fear, promises that he will return, giving her a ring by which to remember him.Act II. Daydreaming about the King, Sakùntala fails to hear... |
_andré_previn_a_streetcar_named_desire_ | A Streetcar Named Desire Synopsis |
_argento_casanova_s_homecoming_ | Casanova's Homecoming Synopsis |
_argento_postcard_from_morocco_ | Postcard from Morocco Synopsis
The characters are waiting in a train station; each of them reveals what they do but will not reveal the contents of their luggage, which they can't part with. The puppet master, who appears to live in the train station, tries to control and manipulate the passengers. The passengers all ... |
_ascher_hoheit_tanzt_walzer_ | Hoheit tanzt Walzer Synopsis |
_auber_fra_diavolo_ | Fra Diavolo Synopsis
Fra Diavolo, or The Inn at Terracina |
_auber_la_muette_de_portici_ | La Muette de Portici Synopsis
Masaniello or The Dumb Girl of Portici |
_auber_le_domino_noir_ | Le Domino Noir Synopsis
The Black Domino |
_auber_manon_lescaut_ | Manon Lescaut Synopsis
The story only loosely resembles the original novel by Prévost (where, for instance, Lescaut is Manon's brother, not her cousin). There is one character - the Marquis d'Herigny - who represents the several wealthy suitors that Manon became involved with in the novel. Some other characters are ab... |
_balfe_the_bohemian_girl_ | The Bohemian Girl Synopsis
Act 1A Polish noble, Thaddeus, in exile in Austria, joins a band of gypsies. He saves Arline, the infant daughter of Count Arnheim, from being killed by a deer. The count, in gratitude, invites him to a banquet, where Thaddeus refuses to toast a statue of the Austrian Emperor, instead splash... |
_barber_antony_and_cleopatra_ | Antony and Cleopatra Synopsis |
_barber_a_hand_of_bridge_ | A Hand of Bridge Synopsis
The contract is 5♥ played by Bill, after the opponents competed in ♣. Sally, who is frustrated as a result of being dummy, "Once again I'm dummy, forever dummy!" recalls a hat of peacock feathers she saw in a shop window that morning and how much she desires to buy it, which is stated rep... |
_barber_vanessa_ | Vanessa Synopsis
Time: About 1905.Place: Vanessa's country house in a northern country.Act 1Vanessa, Erika, and the Baroness await the arrival of Anatol, a man who had been Vanessa's lover twenty years before. After his departure, she had covered up all the mirrors of the house until his expected return, unwilling to ... |
_barbieri_el_barberillo_de_lavapiés_ | El Barberillo de Lavapiés Synopsis |
_bartók_bluebeards_castle_ | Bluebeards Castle Synopsis
The basic plot is loosely based on the folk tale "Bluebeard", but is given a heavily psychological reworking-some would say psychoanalytic or psychosexual, (see Bruno Bettelheim and The Uses of Enchantment).Place: A huge, dark hall in a castle, with seven locked doors.Time: Not defined.Judit... |
_beethoven_fidelio_ | Fidelio Synopsis
ACT I
Florestan, a political prisoner, is incarcerated in Seville. Disguised as a boy named Fidelio, Florestan's wife Leonore gets herself employed by the jailor, Rocco, whose daughter Marzelline then falls in love with the newcomer - to the anger of her lover Jacquino.
Fidelio begs to be allowed to... |
_bellini_adelson_e_salvini_ | Adelson e Salvini Synopsis
Place: IrelandTime: 17th centuryThe story concerns the friendship of the Anglo-Irish Lord Adelson with a young Italian painter, Salvini, who falls in love with Nelly, the beautiful fiancé of the wealthy and powerful Adelson. The plot proceeds to a curiously murderous twist. |
_bellini_bianca_e_fernando_ | Bianca e Fernando Synopsis |
_bellini_béatrice_di_tenda_ | Béatrice di Tenda Synopsis
This is the story of Beatrice Lascaris di Tenda, the woman who was the widow of the condottiere Facino Cane and later the wife of Duke Filippo Maria Visconti, in 15th century Milan. Filippo has grown tired of his wife Beatrice; she regrets her impetuous marriage to him after her first husban... |
_bellini_il_pirata_ | Il Pirata Synopsis
The Pirate
ACT I
The exiled Gualtiero, count of Montaldo, has been living a life of piracy pursued by his enemy Ernesto, duke of Caldara. Ernesto had forced Imogene into marriage (both men were in love with her) by threatening to injure her father.
Gualtiero is shipwrecked on the coast near Ernes... |
_bellini_i_capuleti_ed_i_montecchi_ | I Capuleti ed i Montecchi Synopsis
The Capulets and the Montagues
ACT I
Capello, the chief of the Capuleti, refuses to agree to a pact through which his daughter Giulietta would marry Romeo of the Montecchi clan, and orders that her marriage to Tebaldo should go ahead immediately. Romeo fails to persuade Giulietta ... |
_bellini_i_puritani_ | I Puritani Synopsis
The Puritans
PART I
Plymouth, England, during the Civil War.
Charles l's widow, Queen Henrietta (Enrichetta), is being held captive in a fortress governed by the Puritan Lord Walton. His daughter Elvira loves Lord Arthur (Arturo) Talbot, a Cavalier. Although they are given permission to marry, Elv... |
_bellini_la_sonnambula_ | La Sonnambula Synopsis
The Sleepwalker
ACT I
The inhabitants of a small Swiss village are celebrating the forthcoming marriage of the orphan Amina and the wealthy farmer Elvino. The feudal lord Rodolfo, who is returning home after the death of his father, arrives to stay at the inn, where he flirts with Lisa, the h... |
_bellini_la_straniera_ | La Straniera Synopsis
Act 1Scene 1A wedding chorus proclaims the upcoming wedding of Isoletta, daughter of Montolino, to Count Arturo of Ravenstal. Isoletta fears her Arturo's changed attitude toward her. She tells Baron Valdeburgo that she believes Arturo has fallen in love with a mysterious woman living as a hermit ... |
_bellini_norma_ | Norma Synopsis
ACT I
Gaul during the Roman occupation. Pollione, the Roman consul, has abandoned Norma, the Druid high priestess (by whom he has two sons) in favour of Adalgisa, an acolyte. Norma is unaware of Pollione's infidelity.
Despite ominous dreams, Pollione decides to take Adalgisa back to Rome and marry her... |
_bellini_zaira_ | Zaira Synopsis |
_benatzky_im_weissen_rossl_ | Im Weissen Rossl Synopsis
It is summertime at the Wolfgangsee. Josepha Vogelhuber, the young, attractive but resolute owner of the White Horse Inn, has been courted for some time by her head waiter, Leopold Brandmeyer. While appreciating his aptness for the job, she mistrusts all men as potential gold-diggers, rejects... |
_berg_wozzeck_ | Wozzeck Synopsis
Act 1Scene 1 (Suite)Wozzeck is shaving the Captain who taunts him for living an immoral life, in particular for having a child "without the blessing of the Church". Wozzeck protests that it is difficult to be virtuous when he is poor, but entreats the Captain to remember the lesson from the gospel, ""... |
_berlioz_béatrice_et_bénedict_ | Béatrice et Bénedict Synopsis
ACT I
In the garden of Leonato
The Sicilians welcome home their army, under the generalship of Don Pedro, victorious against the Moors. Hero, daughter of Leonato, Governor of Sicily, hears with pleasure of the success of her beloved Claudio, while her cousin, Beatrice, asks scornfully a... |
_berlioz_la_damnation_de_faust_ | La Damnation de Faust Synopsis
Wikisource has original text related to this article:Part IThe aging scholar Faust contemplates the renewal of nature. Hearing peasants sing and dance, he realizes that their simple happiness is something he will never experience. An army marches past in the distance (Hungarian March). F... |
_berlioz_les_troyens_ | Les Troyens Synopsis
ACT I
The site of the abandoned Greek camp on the plains of Troy
The Trojans are rejoicing that the Greeks have departed after 10 years of war and they prepare to drag into the city the great wooden horse which the Greeks have left behind.
Cassandre alone, daughter of King Priam, gifted with pro... |
_berlioz_romeo_et_juliette_ | Romeo et Juliette Synopsis |
_bernstein_a_quiet_place_ | A Quiet Place Synopsis
Prologue: A chorus sings phrases such as "My Heart Shall Be Thy Garden", "Cakes and Friends We Choose With Care", and "Lost Time is Never Found". Some of these are repeated throughout the opera. Meanwhile, Voices are heard in reaction to a car accident. The victim is Dinah, a wife and mother of ... |
_bernstein_candide_ | Candide Synopsis |
_bernstein_trouble_in_tahiti_ | Trouble in Tahiti Synopsis
ONE AND ONLY ACT
As a jazz trio praises the joys of suburbia, Sam and Dinah, who have been married for 10 years, quarrel over breakfast, as they are unable to prevent themselves from doing every day. Dinah accuses Sam of being excessively interested in his secretary and he denies it angrily.... |
_bernstein_west_side_story_ | West Side Story Synopsis
Act 1Two teenage gangs, the Jets (White) and the Sharks (Puerto Rican), struggle for control of the neighborhood, amidst police whistles and taunts (Prologue). They are warned by Lt. Schrank and Officer Krupke to stop fighting on their beat. The police chase the Sharks off, and then the Jets p... |
_bizet_carmen_ | Carmen Synopsis
ACT I |
_bizet_djamileh_ | Djamileh Synopsis
Place: The palace of Haroun, in CairoAt the end of day Haroun reclines and smokes in his palace, with his servant Splendiano; an off-stage chorus sing. The slave-girl Djamileh passes through the room unseen by Haroun, gazing tenderly at him.Splendiano is looking over his master's accounts when Haroun... |
_bizet_jolie_fille_de_perth_ | Jolie fille de Perth Synopsis
Place: PerthTime: 14th centuryAct 1The workshop of Henry Smith the armourerWorkmen sing in the forge, on the eve of the Carnival. Alone, Smith muses on whether the coquettish Catherine Glover will consent to be his Valentine. Mab, Queen of the Gypsies enters hurriedly, seeking refuge in S... |
_bizet_les_pêcheurs_de_perles_ | Les Pêcheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers) Synopsis
ACT I
A wild beach in Ceylon
The pearl fishers are dancing, feasting and drinking in anticipation of the diving season. They choose Zurga as their chief, promising him absolute obedience.
Nadir, a former fellow diver who has spent some years hunting, is welcomed on ... |
_blow_venus_and_adonis_ | Venus and Adonis Synopsis
PROLOGUE
Cupid, accompanied by a group of shepherds, sings of the power of Love.
ACT I
Venus and Adonis are seen embracing on a couch. The sound of a hunt is heard, and Venus eventually persuads the reluctant Adonis to join in the boar chase.
ACT II
Venus and Cupid discuss the arts of ... |
_bock_fiddler_on_the_roof_ | Fiddler on the roof Synopsis |
_boieldieu_dame_blanche_ | Dame Blanche Synopsis
Place: ScotlandTime: 1753The Count and Countess Avenel have both died in exile, leaving the fate of their castle and estate to their wicked and dishonest steward, Gaveston. The property is supposed to go to the Avenel's son, Julien, but he is missing. Dickson, a tenant farmer on the land of the l... |
_boito_mefistofele_ | Mefistofele Synopsis
PrologueA heavenly chorus praises God the Creator. Mefistofele scornfully declares that he can win the soul of Faust. His challenge is accepted by the Forces of Good.Act 1Scene 1The aged Dr. Faust and his pupil Wagner are watching the Easter celebrations in the main square in Frankfurt. Faust sens... |
_boito_nerone_ | Nerone Synopsis |
_borodin_prinz_igor_ | Prinz Igor Synopsis
Time: The year 1185Place: The city of Putivl (prologue, Acts 1 & 4); a Polovtsian camp (Acts 2 & 3)Act 2Evening in the Polovtsian CampPolovtsian maidens sing comparing love to a flower that droops in the heat of the day and is revived by night. They dance together (Dance of the Polovtsian Maidens).... |
_brahms_harzreise_ | Harzreise Synopsis |
_britten_albert_herring_ | Albert Herring Synopsis
Time: April and May 1900Place: Loxford, a small market town in East Suffolk, EnglandAct 1Housekeeper Florence Pike is run ragged. Her mistress Lady Billows is organizing the annual May Day festival, and has gathered all the important people of the village to vet nominees for the coveted positio... |
_britten_a_midsummer_night_s_dream_ | A Midsummer Night's Dream Synopsis
ACT I
A wood near Athens
A gathering of fairies, attendants of Tytania, Queen of the Fairies, is interrupted by Puck, the servant of Oberon, King of the Fairies. Tytania and Oberon have quarrelled because she refuses to give him one of her attendants, an Indian boy, to be his page.... |
_britten_billy_budd_ | Billy Budd Synopsis
PROLOGUE
Vere
Captain Vere's recollections as an old man frame the action of the opera. As he looks back over a long life of study as well as action, he muses that he has seen much evil and good, though the latter has never been perfect. Meant to lead others, he feels that he has lived in a state o... |
_britten_gloriana_ | Gloriana Synopsis
Time: The late 16th century.Place: England.Act 1Mountjoy wins a jousting tournament. Essex challenges him to a duel and is wounded. The queen scolds the men for their jealousy. Cecil informs the queen of an affair between Penelope and Mountjoy. Essex woos the queen on the lute, and gains permission t... |
_britten_paul_bunyan_ | Paul Bunyan Synopsis
Place: In and around the American forestTime: Early- to mid- twentieth centuryPrologueIn the forestThe old trees like life to be slow ("Since the birth Of the earth"), but are challenged by four young trees and three wild geese. The geese explain that the old trees will have to leave when a Man ar... |
_britten_peter_grimes_ | Peter Grimes Synopsis
PROLOGUE
Inside the Moot Hall
An inquest is conducted by the lawyer Mr Swallow into the death of Peter Grimes' apprentice. Swallow accepts Grimes's account of how the boy died at sea when they ran out of water, bringing in a verdict of "accidental circumstances," but warns Grimes not to get anoth... |
_britten_the_beggar_s_opera_ | The Beggar's Opera Synopsis
Peachum, a fence and thief-catcher, justifies his actions. Mrs. Peachum, overhearing her husband's blacklisting of unproductive thieves, protests regarding one of them, Bob Booty (the nickname of Robert Walpole). The Peachums discover that Polly, their daughter, has secretly married Macheat... |
_britten_the_little_sweep_ | The Little Sweep Synopsis
Time: 1810While their mother is absent "seeing papa off to join his ship", the three Brook children of Iken Hall have been playing host to their three Crome cousins, together with their nursery-maid. The visit is due to end the following day.Scene 1The first Audience Song is sung before the c... |
_britten_the_rape_of_lucretia_ | The Rape of Lucretia Synopsis
ACT I
SCENE 1
Male and Female Chorus are seated on either side of the stage, reading from books. They explain the events against which the action of the opera takes place.
By murder and treachery, the Etruscan Tarquinius Superbus has become King of Rome and rules in a reign of terror. H... |
_britten_turn_of_the_screw_ | Turn of the screw Synopsis
The action takes place at Bly, a country house, about the middle of the last century.
PROLOGUE
The narrator describes the circumstances surrounding the engagement of a young governess to a new post in a country house.
Moved by the persuasion of the young and handsome uncle of two orphan chi... |
_bruneau_attaque_du_moulin_ | Attaque du moulin Synopsis |
_busoni_doktor_faust_ | Doktor Faust Synopsis
The opera contains two prologues, an intermezzo, and three scenes.SymphoniaOrchestral introduction: Easter Vespers and Augurs of Spring. The orchestra begins with bell imitations; later the chorus, behind the curtain, sings the single word: "Pax".The poet speaksIn front of the curtain the poet sp... |
_capdevielle_legend_of_atlantis_ | Legend of Atlantis Synopsis |
_catalani_la_wally_ | La Wally Synopsis
The story is set in the Austrian Tyrol where the free-spirited but vulnerable Wally is in love with the handsome Giuseppe Hagenbach, the son of her father's implacable enemy. This leads to the inevitable disastrous conclusion.Act 1The village of HochstoffA shooting contest is being held in celebratio... |
_catalani_loreley_ | Loreley Synopsis
Loreley is an orphan unhappily in love with Walter who loves Anna. Loreley makes a pact with the Alberich, King of the Rhine to make her irresistible. Everything goes wrong, Walter drowns himself and Loreley is left eternally on her rock, calling young men to their doom. |
_cavalieri_rappresentatione_di_anima_et_di_corpo_ | Rappresentatione di Anima et di Corpo Synopsis |
_cavalli_la_calisto_ | La Calisto Synopsis
Callisto
PROLOGUE
Nature and Eternity celebrate those mortals who have climbed the path to immortality. Destiny insists that the name of Callisto (Calisto) be added to the list.
ACT I
Jove (Giove) and Mercury (Mercurio) are visiting Arcadia. Jove sees the nymph Callisto, a follower of Diana, th... |
_cavalli_nozze_teti_di_peleo_ | Nozze Teti di Peleo Synopsis |
_chabrier_une_éducation_manquée_ | Une Éducation Manquée Synopsis
The overture quotes from "Lorsque le ciel", the letter song and "Faisons-nous petits".Act 1Scene 1 and 2Arriving directly from their (teenage) wedding, the young Count Gontran and his wife Hélène, are both expecting some adult advice from their relations. Their annoyance is interrupted b... |
_charpentier_louise_ | Louise Synopsis
Act 1The Parisian home of Louise's parentsLouise has fallen in love with her neighbor, Julien. At the opening of the opera, they recall how they met. Louise's mother interrupts them and vocally expresses her disapproval of Julien. The exhausted father comes home from work and his wife and daughter impl... |
_charpentier_marc_médée_ | Médée Synopsis
Medea
PROLOGUE
Various rustics sing the praises of Louis XIV and call down Glory, Victory and the goddess of war.
Victory tells how she resides in France because of the country's wise ruler who desires to bring peace to the world.
ACT I
The sorceress Medea (Médée) and her husband Jason are in Corint... |
_cherubini_ali_baba_ | Ali Baba Synopsis |
_cherubini_les_abencérages_ | Les Abencérages Synopsis
Place: The Kingdom of Granada in Moorish SpainTime: End of the 15th CenturyAct 1The action of the opera concerns the feud between the families of the Abencerrages and the Zegris. In spite of this conflict, Almanzor, a young Abencerrage warrior, and the Zegri princess Noraïme have fallen in lov... |
_cherubini_medea_ | Medea Synopsis
Place: CorinthTime: AntiquityAct 1Outside the palace of King CréonDircé is preparing for her wedding to Jason. However, with Médée's help, he had stolen the golden fleece and, in doing so, Médée had betrayed her family and established a relationship with him, the result of which was her two children. Al... |
_cilea_adriana_lecouvreur_ | Adriana Lecouvreur Synopsis |
_cilea_arlesiana_ | Arlesiana Synopsis
Act 1An old shepherd Baldassarre, tells a story to l'Innocente, a younger son of Rosa Mamai about a little goat fighting with a hungry wolf all night long (Come due tizzi accesi). At the break of dawn the goat collapses and dies. L'Innocente is slightly retarded and rumour has it that the child brin... |
_cimarosa_il_maestro_di_cappella_ | Il Maestro di Cappella Synopsis |
_cimarosa_il_matrimonio_segreto_ | Il Matrimonio Segreto Synopsis
The Secret Marriage
ACT I
Geronimo, a wealthy and deaf Bolognese merchant, has two daughters, Elisetta and Carolina, and a sister, Fidalma, who runs the house. Fidalma loves Paolino without realizing that he has been secretly married to Carolina.
Elisetta is to marry Count Robinson, ... |
_cimarosa_le_astuzie_femminili_ | Le Astuzie Femminili Synopsis |
_cimarosa_mercato_di_malmantile_ | Mercato di Malmantile Synopsis |
_copland_the_tender_land_ | The Tender Land Synopsis
The setting is the 1930s in the midwestern United States, at the time of the spring harvest and also of high school graduation.Act ILaurie, the high-school senior daughter of the Moss family, is on the brink of graduating high school. At the start of the opera, Beth, Laurie's sister, is dancin... |
_cornelius_der_barbier_von_bagdad_ | Der Barbier von Bagdad Synopsis
The Barber of Baghdad
ACT I
Nureddin is in love with Margiana, the daughter of the cadi. Botsana, a relative of the cadi and Nureddin's friend, tells him that Margiana has agreed to meet him at noon. She suggests he smarten himself up, and recommends a barber, Abul Hassan. The barbe... |
_cottrau_griselda_ | Griselda Synopsis |
_cui_le_flibustier_ | Le Flibustier Synopsis
Act I. Eight years ago, Pierre left home at the age of ten to be a pirate. His grandfather Legoëz and cousin Janik -- who loves him -- have long hoped that he would return.One day, while only Marie-Anne is in the house, the stranger Jacquemin, who was Pierre's comrade years ago but does not know... |
_cui_mateo_falcone_ | Mateo Falcone Synopsis
The boy Fortunato is outside of his family's house, playing a horn while his parents are away. Shots ring out in the distance, and Sanpiero runs in, wounded. Fleeing the police, he asks Fortunato to hide him. Fortunato asks for and gets some money in return, and hides Sanpiero, the smuggler.The ... |
_dallapiccola_ulisse_ | Ulisse Synopsis |
_dargomyrski_rusalka_ | Rusalka Synopsis
The action takes place by the Dnieper RiverThe plot tells of a maiden who, after being jilted by a prince, drowns herself (hence the designation "rusalka," or "drowned maiden"). The last act of the opera, which features a ballet, is somewhat unusual in that a 12-year-old rusalka speaks her lines over ... |
_debussy_enfant_prodique_ | Enfant Prodique Synopsis |
_debussy_pelléas_et_melisande_ | Pelléas et Melisande Synopsis
ACT I
SCENE 1: A forest
Golaud, lost in the forest while hunting, finds a young girl weeping by the side of a pool. There is a golden crown in the water but she vehemently refuses his offer to get it out because it had been given to her by someone who had frightened her and from whom sh... |
_delibes_lakmé_ | Lakmé Synopsis
Place: IndiaTime: Late nineteenth century during the British Raj. Many Hindus have been forced by the British to practise their religion in secret.Act 1The Hindus go to perform their rites in a sacred Brahmin temple under the high priest, Nilakantha. Nilakantha's daughter Lakmé (which derives from the S... |
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