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Boris Godunov
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Portland, OR
Aug 2001
time: 00:24
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Verdi - Il trovatore. The finale is on, where the imprisoned Manrico *****es out Leonora for being faithless to him with his rival, the Count di Luna. Little does he know that she has agreed to give herself to the Count to save Manrico from execution and has also taken poison to ensure she won't have to go through with the deed. Meanwhile, Manrico's adoptive gypsy mother Azucena hallucinates in the background about the beloved mountains of home.
Ah, but Leonora falters, and Manrico realizes something is wrong. She tells him the truth and begs him to flee before the Count shows up. He refuses, desperate for her to live. She...doesn't. As she dies in his arms, the Count storms in and realizes Leonora has betrayed him. So off with Manrico's head! The prisoner is dragged off while the Count seizes Azucena and makes her watch from a window as *SHUNK* the axe comes down. "He's dead! Ha!" gloats the Count. Azucena turns on him and reveals the horrible truth - the joke's on him, as Manrico was actually the Count's long lost brother, stolen in infancy by the gypsies. As the Count sinks to his knees in horror at having just executed his own brother, Azucena cries out that her mother--long ago burnt at the stake for being a witch by the Count's father--is now avenged. And with a crash of dramatic chords, the curtain falls!
I  absurd opera plots sometimes.
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