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Faust et Hélène
Taken from Goethe’s retelling of the story of Doctor Faust, Boulanger’s opera focuses on the moment...
La Favorite
Fernando has fallen so deeply in love with a mystery woman that he has left his place at the monaste...
Feast in Time of Plague
A grand feast is taking place on a terrace, during the plague in London in 1665. Drinking and revelr...
La Finta giardiniera, (The Pretended Garden-Girl)
La Finta Giardiniera tells the story of Count Belfiore and Violante, who were lovers until Belfiore...
Le Flibustier
The action takes place in Saint-Malo, at the end of the 17th century, in the dwelling of Legoëz, whi...
Florencia en el Amazonas
The opera details the journey of the legendary diva Florencia Grimaldi and her fellow passengers on...
Four Saints in Three Acts
The opera focuses on two sixteenth century Spanish saints — Ignatius of Loyola and Teresa of Avila —...
Galileo Galilei
Drawing from letters of Galileo and his family, and various other documents, the story concerns Gali...
Gemma di Vergy
he Count of Vergy has his marriage to the barren Gemma annulled. At the Count’s second waiting, a sl...
Genoveva
After the Christian knight, Siegfried, answers the Bishop of Trier's call to join the crusade agains...
Gianni di Calais
Gianni di Calais is a melodramma semiserio, a "semi-serious" opera in three acts by Gaetano Donizett...
Gianni di Parigi
''Gianni di Parigi'' is really the Dauphin of France who has taken the identity of a wealthy burgher...
