Advanced search

Beware those two charming, elderly ladies - especially if they offer you a glass of elderberry wine.

Neighboring widowers plot to romantically unite their son and daughter by pretending to feud and forbidding the two children to associate with each other. Their scheme works and the two youngsters fall head-over-heels in love. To end their "feud" the fathers hire a bandit and his henchmen to fake an abduction and allow the son to rout the assailants. The plan works, but the two love birds discover that requited love is much less exciting than forbidden romance and they break off their relationship. Matt, the son, resolves to see the world and receives a severe buffeting, while Luisa, the daughter, has an unhappy romance with the bandit, who steals her most precious possession, her mother's necklace. Matt returns, sadder but wiser, and the two former lovers reunite.

The play concerns the socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, who invites the eccentric medium and clairvoyant, Madame Arcati, to his house to conduct a séance, hoping to gather material for his next book.

A group of swindlers convinces a girl suffering from amnesia that she's the daughter and sole surviving child of Czar Nicholas II in order to collect the vast amount of money she would inherit.

An original opera and Christmas parable set during the gold rush of 1849. A father, his pregnant wife and their young daughter going to California become lost in a blizzard in the Sierra Nevadas. Freezing and hungry they seek refuge In a fort on Christmas Eve with a horde of greedy, drunken gold miners and a protective Captain John Sutters.

A soldier lost in the desert recalls a childhood adventure in the woods.