Magic Flute - Opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In the opera Tamino is given an enchanted object, Carmen - Opera by Frenchman Georges Bizet. This opera is one of most popular and frequently performed. A young gypsy women works in a cigarette factory in Seville, she seduces Don Jose, Her Lover Escamillo is bullfighter. Don Jose kills the young women. , Pirates of Penzance - Comic opera.Music by Gilbert and Sullivan. Frederic is released from his 21 year apprenticeship with a band of pirates. He falls in love with Mabel the daughter of Major-General Stanley. Frederic's birthday is on Feb 29, therefore he has to stay indenture , L'Orfeo - this is a verson of the Orpheus myth, it is the oldest opera still commonly stage today. Composer Claudio Monteverdi, Porgy and Bess - The male character leads the singing of "Oh Lawd, I'm on my way" as he leaves for New York. The male character kills Crown. Another other song in this George Gershwin opera is " I got plenty o' nuttin". In a duet the male character proclaims "you is my woman now". , La boheme - Opera written based on the novel "Manon Lescaut" by Henry Murger. Rodolfo and Mimi are two destitute Parisian artists, who meet when Mimi who lives next door to Rodolfo, needs her single candle needs to be relit. in this opera by Giacomo Puccini. Formed the basis of the hit Musical Rent., Madama Butterfly - By Giacomo Puccini. American naval lieutenant Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton is stationed in Nagasaki, with help of Goro, weds Cio-Cio-San (M. Butterfly) with a marriage contract with a cancellation clause. Pinkerton go home to US marries Kate. Returns to Japan Cio-Cio-San has raised their son (trouble or Joy). Cio-Cio-San give Joy to Pinkerton and stabs herself with her father's dagger., Don Giovanii (Italian form of Don Juan - By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Title Character tries to seduce Donna Anna, is discovered by her father, the Commendatore, who he kills in a swordfight. A servant Leporello recounts his master's 2000 conquests in the "Catalogue Aria" In final scene the statue of the Commendatore comes to life, takes Don Giovanni into a chasm to hell. , The Marriage of Figaro - By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Title character and Susanna are servants of Count Almavia who plan to marry.The plan is complicated by older Marcellina who wants to marry to title character, the Count who makes advances to Susanna, a debt that the title character must repay before marriage. The issues are resolved with a series of complicated schemes, involving impersonating other characters. Based on a comedy by Pierre de Besumarchais. Be careful many similar characters are in the Barber of Seville. , The Barber of Seville - Prequel to The Marriage of Figaro, both operas are by Rossini. Count Almaviva loves Rosina but her guardian Dr. Bartolo stops The Count and the title character from winning Rosina. They are sucessful by climbing a ladder and bribing the notary who was to marry Rosina to Dr. Bartolo. Based on work by Pierre de Beaumarchais., William Tell - By Rossini. Title character is a Swiss patriot who wishes to end Austria's domination of his country. Title character help Leuthold, escape the Austrian Gov. Gessler. Gessler orders men to bow to his hat on a pole, the title character refuses. Gessler takes the makes the Title character to shoot an apple of the character's son head. He suceeds, is arrested, escapes, and with his son set their house on fire. This is a signal to the Swiss to revolt. Based on play by Friedrich von Schiller, Salome - by Richard Strauss on based an Oscar Wilde play. Jokanaan (John the Baptist) imprisoned in King Herod's dungeons. The title character, King Herod's 15 year old daughter is obsessed with John the Baptist tries to seduce him, becomes mad when he ignores her. Herod orders Salome to dance for him (the Dance of the Seven Veils), she refuses until Herod promises her anything she wants. She wants and gets John the Baptist's head on a platter.Herod orders her to be kill, his soldiers crush her with their shields., Boris Godunov - By Modest Mussorgsky. Title Character is Chief adviser of Ivan theTerriable, is being pressured to assume the throne after Ivan's children die. Grigori decides to impersonate the dead younger son, Dmitri, whom the title character has killed. Grigori raises a revolt, the Title character's health falls apart and dreams of the murdered tsarevich (The son of the Tsar). The opera ends with the title character dying in front of the assembled boyars (nobelmen.), Aida - by Giuseppe Verdi. Title character is an Ethiopian princess held captive in Egypt. She falls in love with the Egyptian general Radames and they plan to runaway together. Radames is caught by the high priest and a jealous princess, Amneris. Radmes is buried alive, the title character sneaks into the tomb to join him.,

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