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In Seville, Carmen is a free-spirited gypsy woman who falls madly in love with Don José, a corporal in the guard. Driven by his love for her, and against the wishes of his mother and Micaela, he leaves behind his respectable career for a life of danger with Carmen and her smuggler friends. But Carmen soon tires of Don José's possessiveness and longs to return to her independent life. When Carmen sets her sights on the famous bullfighter Escamillo, Don José's jealousy and desperation lead him to kill her.

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Iris is a naive young woman who attracts the attention of a nobleman, Osaka. He kidnaps her to take her to a luxurious apartment in the Yoshiwara district. She thinks she is dreaming or in Paradise. Osaka intends to seduce her but only succeeds in terrifying her. He soon tires of the affair and of Iris's simplicity, leaving her in the hands of Kyoto, a pimp.

He takes her to his brothel, where she is cursed by her father and, full of shame, throws herself into a well.

Her body ends up in the sewer drain, where a ray of sunlight shines on the clothes wrapping her. The half-dead Iris comes to life. In her delirium she hears the voices of her father, Osaka and Kyoto, all telling her about the brutality of life. The sun rises and proclaims its infinite love. Iris dies in the blazing sun, transformed into the flower that bears her name.

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The plot is played out in the gloomy atmosphere of 15th-century Aragon and tells the romantic love story of Leonora and her troubadour Manrico. Manrico and the Count of Luna compete passionately for Leonora's love. Although Leonora loves Manrico, the jealous Count will do everything possible to have her. Eventually, he and Manrico agree to a duel. Meanwhile, Manrico's mother, Azucena, haunted by a horrible past, keeps a secret that affects both Manrico and the Count: years earlier, intending to avenge her mother's murder by the aristocratic Luna family, she kidnapped their youngest son.

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Ginevra, the daughter of the King of Scotland, is courted by Polinesso, but she is in love with Ariodante and has become engaged to him. Polinesso, seeking revenge on Ariodante, takes advantage of the unrequited love felt him by Dalinda, Ginevra's maid, convincing her to dress in Ginevra's clothes and let him into the royal quarters. Ariodante goes to his rendezvous with Ginevra that night and is so devastated by what he sees that he throws himself off a cliff into the sea. Ariodante's brother, Lurcanio, has secretly witnessed the scene and tells everything to the king, who condemns his daughter to death for faithlessness. But Ariodante has not died and he meets Dalinda in the forest. Disillusioned with Polinesso, she decides to tell him about the deception he has plotted. To defend Ariodante's honour, Lurcanio challenges Polinesso to a duel and kills him. Ariodante appears to save Ginevra from death and clarify everything before the king.

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Basada en el clásico inolvidable de Shakespeare, el argumento de la ópera sigue la trágica historia de amor entre Romeo y Julieta. Los dos protagonistas provienen de familias enemigas de Verona, los Montaigu y los Capulet, pero se enamoran apasionadamente a pesar de saber que el suyo es un amor imposible. Con la ayuda de un fraile amigo, deciden casarse en secreto. Desgraciadamente, las circunstancias se complican y acaban en una serie de trágicos malentendidos que llevan a la muerte de los dos amantes. 

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The King of Jerusalem, Hidraot, entrusts his niece, Armide, a Muslim princess, with the task of fighting the Christian crusader army of Godfrey of Bouillon, who is trying to conquer the city. The princess has unleashed all her fury to stop the enemies of her kingdom and has captured hundreds of them with the spell of her gaze, all except for Reinaldo, whom she cannot seduce and has to kill. But she cannot commit the crime herself because she has fallen in love with the young warrior. Defeated and abandoned by her lover, she desperately mourns his betrayal and departure.

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Oberon orders Puck to find a herb to make a magic elixir: whoever drinks it will fall in love with the first creature they see when they wake. Lysander and Hermia are going to get married. Demetrius is in love with Hermia and Helena with Demetrius. Oberon decides to help Helena, but Puck mistakenly pours elixir into Lysander's eyes. When he wakes up, he sees Helena, which makes him fall in love with her. Oberon also casts a spell on Tytania, while Puck casts a spell on one of the rustics, giving him a donkey’s head. Tytania wakes up, sees the donkey and falls in love with him. Oberon realises everything has gone wrong, so he decides to cast a spell on Demetrius, who, when he wakes up and sees Helena, falls in love with her. She and Hermia quarrel and Lysander and Demetrius decide to fight a duel. Before the sun rises, Oberon decides to remove the spell from his queen and become reconciled with her. When dawn breaks, everything returns to normal: everyone is with the right partner and life is back on the right track, in an unchangeable social order.

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The story of an honest doctor who confronts the authorities and economic powers of a town when he discovers deadly bacteria in the water at the local spa: an analysis of the prevalence of morality over economic considerations.

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Carlo, the eldest son of the Count of Moor, is seduced by a life of banditry after falling victim to a conspiracy by his brother Francesco, who strips him of his inheritance and sows deceit in his family. As Carlo sinks into a world of violence, his beloved Amalia fights to stay by his side, but Francesco tries to separate them by making her and her father believe Carlo has died in the war. When Carlo decides to return home, Francesco gives him a rude reception, but, cornered, he commits suicide and their father dies of grief. As Carlo does not feel he can drag Amalia into a disorderly outlaw’s life, he kills her and leaves to seek his own death.

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Ariane, a strong, independent woman, becomes Bluebeard's sixth wife and, on arriving at his castle, finds his five previous wives kidnapped there. Instead of following her path of liberation, they are unable to start a new life and prefer to remain subservient. Despite her efforts, Ariane realises she cannot impose her worldview on those who do not wish to change their destiny. In the end, it is she who abandons the castle, leaving behind a world of shadows that appears doomed to repeat itself.