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Pique Dame
Officer Gherman is troubled. The beautiful girl he loves is engaged to be married and he does not ev...
Prince Igor
An eclipse foreshadows Prince Igor’s journey into battle against the Khans with a bad omen, but Igor...
Prodaná nevěsta
In a small Bohemian village, the fair maiden Mařenka is enamored with her sweetheart, Jeník. The pr...
The Rape of Lucretia
The Rape of Lucretia revolves around a bet made between three Roman officers, Collatinus, Junius, an...
Riders to the Sea
Set on the remote island of Inishmaan, Vaughan-William’s intensely tragic opera is based on J.M. Syn...
Roberto Devereux
Queen Elisabetta I of England has fallen in love with Roberto Devereux, Earl of Essex, but suspects...
La Rondine
Magda de Civry has always dreamed of romance. As a young girl, she was swept off her feet one evenin...
Sir John in Love
Taking as its basis, and combining other texts from Ben Johnson, Philip Sidney, Thomas Middleton, a...
Tom-Tom: An Epic of Music and the Negro
In a village in West Africa, Voodoo is performing a ritual ceremony. A Girl had been designated as t...
Treemonisha
In this community, the people have been left to live freely on the plantation where they were previo...
La voix humaine
Lying alone in her apartment, a young woman waits for a telephone call from her ex. Several wrong nu...
The Wreckers
The Wreckers is set amongst the legends of the Cornish coast, where it was thought that ships were d...
