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Operas: Learn About the Stories & Characters from Important Operas





Search Results for Operas (page 9 of 17)


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Dialogues of the Carmelites Dialogues of the Carmelites is a tragic opera about fear, faith, and courage in a Carmelite convent ... 0
Edgar Edgar loves a pure village-girl (Fidelia) and also lusts for the Moorish girl (Tigrana). He ends up... 0
The Eighth Wonder The opera concerns how the amazing Sydney Opera Housein in Australia got built. The story revolves ... 0
Einstein on the Beach The plotless libretto of Einstein on the Beach consists of solfege syllables, numbers and short segm... 0
Ernani Three men vie for the hand of the beautiful, young Elvira: Ernani, the outlawed nobleman reduced to ... 0
Ero s onoga svijeta (Ero the Joker) Ero the Joker is a comic opera about a wealthy young man from a neighboring village who pretends to ... 0
Euridice The opera's story is based on Ovid's Metamorphoses. It contains one of the first examples of recitat... 0
La favorite Taking place in early 14th century Spain, a love triangle develops involving the King of Castile Alf... 0
Die Feen (The Fairies) Die Feen is Wagner's first opera with a libretto based on a fairy-tale by Gozzi.... 0
The Fiery Angel (Prokofiev) Renata is a tortured soul possessed by a ‘fiery angel’ whom she loves. She later identifies the... 0
Florencia en el Amazonas (Florencia in the Amazon) The opera details the journey of the legendary diva Florencia Grimaldi and her fellow passengers on ... 0
Four Saints in Three Acts The opera focuses on two sixteenth century Spanish saints — Ignatius of Loyola and Teresa of Avila... 0
Der Freischütz (The Freeshooter) The young ranger Max loves Agatha and is to become the successor to Kuno, the head ranger and Agatha... 0
Feast in Time of Plague Set in 1665 London during the Black Plague, the opera revolves around a banquet in which revelries c... 0
Das Rheingold (The Rhine Gold) Das Rheingold ("The Rhine Gold") is the first of the four operas that comprise Der Ring des Nibelung... 0
La forza del destino After Don Alvaro, a nobleman from South America, settles in Seville he falls in love with the daught... 0
Galileo Galilei Drawing from letters of Galileo and his family, and various other documents, the story concerns Gali... 0
La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie) La gazza ladra is the story of a young girl who is tried and sentenced to death for stealing a silve... 0
Genoveva After the Christian knight, Siegfried, answers the Bishop of Trier’s call to join the crusade agai... 0
Gloriana ‘Gloriana’ depicts the relationship between Queen Elizabeth I of England and the Earl of Essex. ... 0