Performed Collection (page 13)

Ponchielli / Gioconda / Lbg
Performed at Covent Garden Theatre, London

Pacini / Saffo / Liebig 6
Saffo, to expiate the sacri- lege of destroying Apollos altar, even though it was the result of misunderstandings for which she can hardly be blamed, jumps off a cliff

Pacini / Saffo / Liebig 4
Saffo, after the sacrilege of destroying Apollos altar, is expelled from the temple

Pacini / Saffo / Liebig 3
Saffo, maddened with grief when her lover Faone marries Climene, destroys Apollos altar, an act she will soon regret

Pacini / Saffo / Liebig 2
Climene prepares for her wedding with Faone, though Faone still loves Saffo

Pacini / Saffo / Liebig 1
Faone repulses Saffo, believing that she has betrayed him, and decides to marry Climene instead

Offenbach / Belle Helene
Brasseur as Menelas, and Simon-Girard as Helene, in this spoof on the heroes and divinities of Ancient Greece

Meyerbeer / Robert Liebig6
Act 5 Finale : the diabolical Bertram is dismayed at the sight of Robert and Isabella, now united in love and also in higher spiritual values

Meyerbeer / Robert Liebig5
Act 4 scene 2 : Robert is torn between Bertram (the Devil) and Alice : she saves him from signing a compact, the clock strikes twelve, Bertram vanishes back to Hell

Meyerbeer / Robert Liebig4
Act 4 scene 2 : Robert breaks the magic branch, destroying the spell set by Bertram, the Devil

Meyerbeer / Robert Liebig3
Act 3 scene 7 : Bertram, the Devil, summons from their graves the spirits of nuns who failed to keep their vows, and promises to add Robert to their number

Meyerbeer / Robert Liebig2
Act 2 scene 6 : Isabella lends Robert, who has lost every thing, armour in which to take part in the tournament, but once again Bertram (the real Devil) tricks him

Meyerbeer / Robert Liebig1
Act 1 scene 7 : Inspired by Bertram (the real Devil), Roert loses everything he possesses

Meyerbeer / Robert Solo
The famous Act 3 scene where Bertram, the Devil, invokes the spirits of nuns who failed their vows - a ludicrous scene which Meyerbeer magically transforms into a masterpiece

Meyerbeer / Prophete / L5
Act Five Scene 6 : when his followers address Jean as their Prophet, Berthe learns her lover and the prophet are one and the same and plunges a dagger into her heart

Meyerbeer / Prophete / L4
Act Four Scene 4 : Jean of Leyden is about to be crowned when he is recognised by his mother, which is embarrassing since he claims to be of divine origin

Meyerbeer / Prophete / L1
Act One Scene 5 : Count Oberthal forces Berthe, with whom he has fallen in love, into his castle

Meyerbeer / Prophete / L
Act four : Jean of Leyden is about to be crowned when his mother recognises him : he tricks her into retracting her recognition

Meyerbeer / Prophete / 3
The audience at the Paris Opera watch the dramatic scene in Act Four, where John of Leyden, claiming divine origin, is about to be crowned when he is recognised by his mother

Meyerbeer / Huguenots / Lib3
Act 3 scene 4 - the Huguenot Raoul de Nangis prepares to fight a duel with St Bris, not knowing he is the father of his beloved Valentine

Meyerbeer / Huguenots / Lib2
Act 2 scene 4 - the Huguenot Raoul de Nangis is conducted to meet queen Marguerite de Valois in the gardens of Chenonceaux

Meyerbeer / Huguenots / Lib1
Act 1 scene 2 - the Huguenot Raoul de Nangis is presented to the Catholic duc de Nevers, because the king wishes to reconcile the two faiths

Meyerbeer Africaine Lib6
Act five - Selika, queen of Madagascar, watches her husband Vasco da Gama sail away with Ines, and sits under a manchineel tree, to breathe whose scent is fatal

Meyerbeer Africaine Lib5
Act four - Vasco da Gama marries Selika, queen of Madagascar; but even as he swears the marriage oath he hears his beloved Ines lamenting her misfortunes

Meyerbeer Africaine Lib2
Act two - Ines, in love with Vasco da Gama, delivers him from imprisonment by the Inquisition but only by consenting to marry Don Pedro

Meyerbeer Africaine Lib1
Act one - Vasco da Gama before the Grand Council of the king of Portugal tells the story of his explorations and petitions for an expedition to sail round the Cape to the Indies

Massenet / Manon / Liebig
The opera performed at the Paris Opera

Massenet / Cid / Liebig
Act four, 10th tableau : The confrontation between El Cid and Boabdil, king of the Moors

Massenet / Cid / Liebig 5
Act four, 10th tableau : The king, grateful to Rodrigo for delivering Spain from the Moors, bestows on him the name of El Cid, which means master warrior

Smetana / Bride - Set
( Prodama Nevesta ) Set design for acts 1 and 3. in the Paris 1928 production

Mascagni / Marat / Liebig 5
Act three : the Prince, disguised as a revolutionary, with Mariella, who knows his identity and resolves to flee Paris with him

Mascagni / Marat / Liebig 4
Act two : the Prince, disguised as a revolutionary, recognises his mother at the Revolutionary Tribunal

Mascagni / Marat / Liebig 3
Act one : the prince (in disguise) embraces his mother, imprisoned by the Revolutionaries, through the bars of the prison

Mascagni / Marat / Liebig 2
Act one : the prince (in disguise) joins the Marats, the revolutionary guard, hoping he will be able to rescue his imprisoned mother, la Princesse de Fleury

Mascagni / Cav - Postcar
Turiddu, Lola and Santuzza in a dramatic confrontation, during this idyll of rustic life

Mascagni / Cav - Liebig
Sixty curtain calls greet the first production at the Teatro Costanzi, Rome - a resounding success which will be followed by enduring popularity

Verdi Falstaff Liebig
Falstaff is hidden in the laundry basket

LECOCQ / PLUTUS
The virtues of Plutus are celebrated in song and wine

Gounod / Reine De Saba
King Solomons court : Scene from Act 5, in the original Paris production

Gluck / Orphee, Brussels
Madame Dratz-Barrat as Eurydice : since this is a Belgian card, she presumably took part in a production at Brussels

Glinka / Ruslan & L - 3
Costumes for the two principal characters- Ruslan, a warrior, and Lyudmila, daughter of the Grand Duke: they are betrothed in Act One, and are united in Act Five after a deal of fuss

Glinka / Ruslan & L - 2
Setting for Act One : the castle of the Grand Duke of Kiev (Kyiv) whose daughter is betrothed to Ruslan, but he needs to sing his way through five acts before he gets her

Glinka / Ruslan & L - 1
Setting for Act Three : the castle of the witch Naina

Traviata - Liebig
Act one : Alfredo meets Violetta at her party, and is immediately captivated

Traviata - Liebig - 4
Act two, scene 14 : at Floras ball, Alfredo calls the company to witness that he pays his debts, and flings his gaming winnings at Violettas feet

Traviata - Liebig - 3
Act two, scene eight : Alfredos father, Georgio Germont, tries in vain to console him for the loss of Violetta who has nobly renounced him

Traviata - Liebig - 2
Act two, scene five : Alfredos father, Georgio Germont, visits Violetta and tells her she is ruining his son and also his daughters marriage prospects

Traviata - Liebig - 1
Act one, scene three : Alfredo and Violetta meet

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