Read a translation of Wagner's own comprehensive summary of his opera about the consequences of criminalizing carnival festivities.

Read the review to decide whether this SF Opera commission is "a misguided abuse of the genre or a radical reworking of operatic stagecraft."

Summary of the story of Wagner's spectral ship's captain includes an translated excerpt of the ballad of "The Flying Dutchman."

Find out what becomes of the Knight-Templar, Brian de Bois Guilbert and the Jewess Rebecca in Marschner's musical retelling of Scott's "Ivanhoe."

Discover who wins the singing competition prize of the goldsmith's daughter's hand in marriage in this detailed description of Wagner's work.

Discover the circumstances under which the title heroine is abandoned in Meyerbeer's 1859 work populated with a wizard, goblins and dwarves.

Learn about the rivalry between the bandit of the title and a matador who both love the same gypsy girl in this summary of Manuel Penella's work.

Discover the surprising identity of the bandit of the title of Verdi's York, and glimpse the adventures he encounters.

Follow the tale of the priestess of Aphrodite and her affair with the athletic hero of the title in Luigi Mancinelli's work.