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Roberto Devereux
Queen Elisabetta I of England has fallen in love with Roberto Devereux, Earl of Essex, but suspects...
La Rondine
Magda de Civry has always dreamed of romance. As a young girl, she was swept off her feet one evenin...
Salome
Salome is Oscar Wilde’s twist on the biblical story of Herod, Herodias, and Salome. The story tells...
Simon Boccanegra
A child born out of wedlock, to the daughter of a wealthy family, is hidden away by her father until...
Sir John in Love
Taking as its basis, and combining other texts from Ben Johnson, Philip Sidney, Thomas Middleton, a...
Tom-Tom: An Epic of Music and the Negro
In a village in West Africa, Voodoo is performing a ritual ceremony. A Girl had been designated as t...
Treemonisha
In this community, the people have been left to live freely on the plantation where they were previo...
Les Troyens
After 10 years of war, the city of Troy finds itself in a sudden moment of peace. The Greek forces h...
The Tsar’s Bride
When Gryaznoy’s request to marry the beautiful Marfa is rejected by her father, because she is alrea...
La voix humaine
Lying alone in her apartment, a young woman waits for a telephone call from her ex. Several wrong nu...
Werther
The young, melancholic poet Werther falls madly in love with the married Charlotte, but she is betro...
The Wreckers
The Wreckers is set amongst the legends of the Cornish coast, where it was thought that ships were d...