Emily Magee

Based on Oscar Wilde's story 'The Birthday of the Infanta,' Zemlinsky's single-act opera 'Der Zwerg' is the tragic tale of a dwarf who is presented at court, falls in love with the beautiful Donna Clara, but is ultimately forced to see himself as others see him and to die of a broken heart. Preceded by Schoenberg's 'Accompaniment to a Cinematographic Scene,' Op. 34, Zemlinsky's Romantic score...

Antonin Dvorak's opera is an story that also plays as a children's tale, featuring a water nymph named Rusalka who falls in love with a man, and then becomes the subject of a spell created by a witch.

Charts the twists and turns of Arabella and her sister, Zdenka, in finding true love. Arabella longs for the 'right' man to marry, but her father needs her to marry a rich husband to rescue the family fortunes he has gambled away. Zdenka has already fallen in love with one of Arabella's suitors, Matteo, yet as the family cannot afford to launch two girls into Viennese society she has been brought up as a boy called Zdenko and cannot reveal her love....

Elsa of Brabant is accused of murder by Frederick of Telramund. Lohengrin saves her and asks her to marry him. Meanwhile, Frederick and his wife, Ortrud, plot against their union.