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The Fairy-Queen
Taking as its starting point, Purcell’s The Fairy-Queen uses some of the original story to further...
Götterdämmerung
Siegfried is now in possession of the Ring of power, forged by Alberich from the Rhinegold. Unknown...
Macbeth
A witches’ prophecy, and fierce ambition, lead Macbeth and his wife to commit ruthless acts of viole...
Manon
Manon is a tale of love, greed, and betrayal. Manon is a young girl who is being sent to a convent b...
Suor Angelica
Suor Angelica is the tragic tale of a woman who bears a child out of wedlock and is sent to a conven...
Tristan und Isolde
Tristan has been tasked with deliver the Irish princess, Isolde, to his uncle and her husband to be,...
Albert Herring
In the small town of Loxford in East Sussex, the old-fashioned autocrat Lady Billows is in a tizzy....
Der fliegende Holländer
The Flying Dutchman has been doomed to an eternity of wandering the seas. Once every seven years, he...
Dialogues des Carmélites
Set in the French Revolution, between the years 1789 and 1794, Poulenc’s tragic opera Dialogues des...
Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Belmonte, a young Spanish nobleman, has travelled to Turkey to rescue his beloved from the Pasha who...
Falstaff
The fat, old knight, Falstaff, seeks to seduce two married women in order to steal some money, and h...
The Handmaid's Tale
Set in the United States in the early 21st Century, the country is run by a theocratic Protestant fu...
