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responsibilities of her position. Watch her, for example, when her Mistress is about to confide to her ear the dawn of her passion for _Manrico_. She walks _Leonora_ gently down to the footlights, launches her into her solo, like a boat, and stands aside on the left, a little...
_Manrico_ is being tortured, after having been taken prisoner in a combat during the _entr'acte_. Here a confidant might have comforted her considerably by representing that the...
1. Chapter 1responsibilities of her position. Watch her, for example, when her Mistress is about to confide to her ear the dawn of her passion for _Manrico_. She walks _Leonora_ gently down...
3. Chapter 3with followers, to abduct _Leonora_. The followers range themselves against a wall in the background, until the Count has finished "_Il Balen_." If their opinion was asked, they...
5. Chapter 5prepared--four apathetic bridesmaids, and the four acolytes in tights--who have possibly been kindly lent by the Convent for the occasion--in a vacuous row at the back of the sc...
2. Chapter 2rather improbable story of how, in a fit of absorption, she once burnt her own son in mistake for the _Conte di Luna's, Manrico_ listens, as a matter of filial duty--because, af...
4. Chapter 4possible on four gilded cruets, and a dozen goblets. _Azucena_ is brought before the Count, and manacled. Operatic handcuffs--a most humane contrivance--with long links, to perm...