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- In a gypsy camp the orphan Perhan lives with his grandmother Hatidza, his gambling and womanizing uncle Brandes and his sister Danira. Perhan is in love with Azra, but her mother refuses to let them marry, hoping to find someone with more money as a husband for her daughter. Perhan's sister is crippled, but the big gangster Ahmed owes the Perhan's grandmother a favour for saving his sick son, and agrees to take her to the hospital in Ljubjana for treatment. Instead, Ahmed puts the young girl out begging on the streets of Milan - part of a people trafficking operation he is running with his brothers. Perhan has no choice but to work with Ahmed, but the business of thievery, begging and prostitution is a lucrative one and soon Perhan makes his fortune in Italy. He returns to marry Azra, but finds that she is now pregnant, apparently with the child of his uncle. It's a situation that is to end in tragedy for all concerned.
- Werther loves Charlotte, but she promised her mother on her deathbed that she would marry Albert. After the marriage Charlotte suggests that Werther should travel - but not forget her.
- In the course of the 19th century, Shakespeare's works were a constant source of inspiration for the Romantics. In particular, The Tragic History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, one of the English playwright's most famous plays, dominated by the existential questions of the title role - To be or not to be -, the ghost of his murdered father and his doomed love for Ophelia. Alexandre Dumas père was himself fascinated by this drama and in 1847 he produced a highly successful adaptation. It was on the basis of this version that Michel Carré and Jules Barbier gave Ambroise Thomas the libretto for Hamlet, the last opera to be performed in the Salle Le Peletier. Inspired by the musical and dramaturgical forms of French grand opera, the composer imbues the story with an intensity that contributes to the beauty of the score. A milestone of opera for which Krzysztof Warlikowski, ever fathoming the depths of the human psyche, redraws the Shakespearean contours.
- Rusalka, a water nymph, longs to become human so she can find love. Despite the consequences her aunt gives here a potion that grants her wish and she promptly falls for a handsome prince. Alas, she has a rival for the prince's affections. Spurned by the prince she returns to the lake and becomes a spirit of death until the prince once again wanders by.
- Cardillac is a master jeweler who cannot live without his creations, killing his clients to recuperate them and assert his authorship, and conferring the status of art upon the act of murder.
- Krump dance over Rameau.
- « My job is fantastic » is a cinematic journey across three professions of the opera : a voice-casting director, a "coryphée" dancer, a costume dyer.
- A french production of Bizet's opera recorded live at the Opera Paris-Bastille for Mezzo.