Eliza (Cherubini)

Eliza, ou Le voyage aux glaciers du Mont St Bernard (Eliza, or The Journey to the Glaciers of Mont St Bernard)[1] is an opéra comique in two acts by Luigi Cherubini with a French libretto by Jacques-Antoine de Révéroni Saint-Cyr.

Cherubini's musical evocation of nature (nightfall, the storm) influenced Carl Maria von Weber, who was particularly fond of the opera.

Florindo and his servant Germain travel to the Great St Bernard Pass where they are welcomed by the prior of the local monastery.

Eliza arrives at the monastery bringing news of her father's death which will enable her to marry Florindo.

A violent storm blows up and starts an avalanche which engulfs Florindo, but the monks save him and he is finally reunited with Eliza.