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Les contes d'Hoffmann
Set during the interval of a performance of Don Giovanni, the writer and poet Hoffmann entertains a...
Death and the Maiden
Set in a country that is transitioning to democracy, Death and the Maiden explores how -- and if --...
Der fliegende Holländer
The Flying Dutchman has been doomed to an eternity of wandering the seas. Once every seven years, he...
The Desert Song
The plot concerns a dashing rebel leader whose band of freedom fighters, the Riff, threaten the safe...
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...
Die lustige Witwe
Hanna Glawari, recently widowed multi-millionairess, and citizen of Pontevedro, has suitors vying fo...
The Diviners
When C.C. Showers, a back-sliding preacher, leaves the pulpit in Kentucky that he’s inherited from h...
Electra (Sophocles)
Justice and revenge lie at the heart of Sophocles’ Electra, still considered today a remarkable achi...
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Falstaff
The fat, old knight, Falstaff, seeks to seduce two married women in order to steal some money, and h...
Fools
The town of Kulyenchikov has been cursed with stupidity for the last 200 years. The vendor sells fis...
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf
for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf is a choreopoem by Ntozake...
