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Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor
Otto Nicolai’s comic singspiel Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor is a German retelling of . Many of ou...
A Dinner Engagement
The Earl of Dunmow has fallen on hard times, and has plans to improve his fiscal situation through a...
Doctor Atomic
Doctor Atomic is set on the final days before the first test of the atomic bomb; July 15 and 16, 194...
Don Carlos
Verdi’s grand opera Don Carlos is a story of love and devotion conflicting with political and religi...
Donna del lago, La (The Lady of the Lake)
Ellen, daughter of the rebel chief, Douglas, loves Malcolm but is promised by her father to Roderigo...
Edgar
Edgar loves a pure village-girl and also lusts for the Moorish girl . He ends up running away from...
The Exterminating Angel
The Marquis of Nobile, Edmundo, and his wife, Lucía, are having a dinner party after an excellent pe...
The Fiery Angel
Since her childhood, Renata has been in love with an angel called Madiel, who burned like a bright g...
Fête Galante
After performing their show for the King and Queen, Pierrot is quite exhausted with all the clowning...
La Gioconda
The manipulative Barnaba is obsessed with Gioconda, and will do anything to get her for himself. He...
Le Grand Macabre
The central subject of the opera is mortality and its central character is Death, in the form of the...
Les Huguenots
The plot of the opera culminates in the historical St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in 1572 in which t...
