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After the Ball
After the Ball tells the story of the twenty-one-year-old Lady Windermere who wrongly thinks her hus...
Amelia Al ballo (Amelia Goes to the Ball)
Amelia wants to go to the ball and seemingly nothing will stop her. Even when her husband discovers...
Andrea Chénier
France is on the brink of revolution as servants have become fed up with the nobility. While at a pa...
Armida
Judith Weir’s Armida is an updating of the Armida legend to a time recent enough for TV stations and...
Attila
The story takes place in 5th century in the city of Aquileia. Attila the Hun is attempting to conqu...
Blue Monday
The opera takes place in a basement cafe near the intersection of 135th Street and Lennox Avenue in...
Les Boréades
By tradition, Queen Alphise is supposed to marry a son of Boreas. However, she falls in love with A...
Brundibár
Aninka and Pepíček are fatherless sister and brother with an ill mother. They decide to sing in the...
La buona figliuola
The marquis of Conchiglia has fallen in love with Cecchina who is a maid. Shocked by the social impr...
Capriccio
In 18th century Paris, Countess Madeleine loves both music and poetry. And soon she finds herself wo...
The Captain's Daughter
The action takes place in Russia, in 1775 during the Pugachov rebellion. Young Pyotr is sent to a fo...
Cardillac
In 17th century Paris, the goldsmith Cardillac is revered for his amazing works of art. Meanwhile,...
