Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...plot is of a rather more substantial character than that of most light operas. Don Manuel, the young and handsome Alcayde of Seville, is desperately in love with Farina, an orphan maid of lowly birth. As Farina is the ward of the Grand Inquisitor of Seville, it becomes necessary for Don Manuel to ask the consent of that pompous functionary before pressing his suit. The Inquisitor, however, has designs of a nuptial nature on Farina himself, and to put his rival out of the way he shows Don Manuel a prenuptial contract made with a fierce Moorish chieftain when...
...Grand Inquisitor meanwhile loses no time in pressing his suit with Farina, and to end Don Manuel's hopes, shows her the compact with the Moor. But Farina has no love for her artful guardian, and when Don Manuel, in the guise of Carlos, the gypsy, makes love to her, she readily accepts him, and the pair plan an elopement...
...this stage the Moorish princess and her fierce brother, Abu Abdela, appear upon the scene to claim, in accordance with the ancient contract, the young Alcayde, Don Manuel. The Grand Inquisitor is unable to produce Don Manuel, at which Abu flies into a terrible passion, and makes things extremely unpleasant for Seville's chief magistrate...
...Abdela returns to press matters with unhappy Grand Inquisitor, who as a last extreme produces the disguised Alcayde as the real Don Manuel, and bids the preparations for the wedding proceed. At this juncture the appearance of the drunken Carlos, in the garb of the Alcayde, makes matters all the more complicated and intricate...
...atmosphere is distinctly Spanish. The plot hangs on the ardent love of the young Alcayde for a fair maiden, the ward of the stern and pompous Grand Inquisitor of Seville. The latter dignitary has many schemes of his own which he puts into execution at the expense of the poor Alcayde, but not without involving himself in serious complications. The reckless projects of a wandering gypsy are accountable for a general misunderstanding on the part of all and cause grave difficulties before matters are finally straightened out. Spanish peasants, gypsies and Moors give the action a picturesque surrounding...