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Need to know an opera plot fast? Read our 100% organic synopses, composed and tweeted in the afterglow of live performances (some details and subplots omitted). Birmingham, UK Joined July 2010
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4 years ago

Vixen Sharp-Ears meets a handsome fox in a clearing in the forest and they fall in love. They are gentle with one another and respectful, and they raise a charming brood of playful cubs. The people they come across live longer but by contrast they are weak, cruel and sentimental

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5 years ago

Vanessa is to marry Anatol, the son of her deceased former lover, after her niece Erika, carrying his child, has rejected his offer of marriage. But we don’t know who Anatol’s mother is, and Vanessa can tell there is something that her mother and her doctor aren’t telling her.

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6 years ago

Giant Polyphemus, spurned by Galatea, can’t bear to hear her singing a love duet with Acis so throws a rock at his rival, killing him. Galatea mourns briefly then uses her divine power to bring Acis back to life... as a fountaiin. No joy shall last, as the chorus told us earlier.

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6 years ago

With demigod Löge’s cunning help Wotan, ruler of the gods, recovers the stolen Rheingold from Alberich, lord of the Niebelungs, only to have it immediately extorted from him by giants who fight to the death over it, proving Alberich’s curse. Why do I bother, Löge asks himself.

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7 years ago

Formerly-married Golaud finds enigmatic Melisande by a forest pool mourning the loss of her golden crown (not wanting it back) and marries her. But it is his young half-brother Pelleas to whom she finally declares her love. Fratricide ensues and Melisande dies in childbirth.

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8 years ago

Misogynistic murderers tell their sad stories, a political prisoner is tortured and freed. An eagle flies free from the house of the dead.

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8 years ago

Cretan king Idomeneo about to sacrifice son when sea-god Neptune relents. Saintly Idamante succeeds, marries beloved Ilia. Electra ends it.

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9 years ago

Juno, finding Jove's eye turned by Semele, tricks her into tricking him into swearing to come to her in his godly form. The flames kill her.

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11 years ago

@operaplots Teaser: A Swedish diva is stranded in Nazi Germany, after a triumphant Berlin debut.

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11 years ago

Dutchman fated to sail the seas until he has a faithful wife finds one but overhears her huntsman ex pleading for her love and sails on.

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12 years ago

Theodora will not honour Rome's gods and chooses death over deflowering as punishment. Didymus says 'kill me not her' but Valens is unmoved.

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13 years ago

A potion brings out Tristan and Isolde's surpressed love. They meet in darkness but are betrayed by Melot. Mark is gutted. Tragedy ensues.

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14 years ago

Katya Kabanova longs to fly but drowns herself in the Volga when neither her husband nor her lover stand up for her against bullying elders.

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15 years ago

Choosing a deserter's life with temptress Carmen over the comforts of hometown Micaela, Bizet's Jose is soon dropped with tragic results.

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15 years ago

Monteverdi's Orfeo, chided for coolness leading Eurydice from Hades, looks back, breaks pact with Pluto, and loses her. Gluck's is luckier.

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15 years ago

Queen Dido and voyager Aeneas consummate their love only to be separated by duty and the trickery of witches. Aeneas sails on; Dido laments.

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15 years ago

Count, killed by serial seducer Giovanni who carries on seducing, returns as a statue and drags Don down to hell. Spain 1003, feminism 0.

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