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Updated: June 27, 2025
Paula was also the friend and companion of Albina and Marcellina, sisters of the great Ambrose, whose father was governor of Gaul. Felicita, Principia, and Feliciana also belonged to her circle, all of noble birth and great possessions.
Paolo, the General, her lover, had wrenched her from that fate to share with him a life of turbulent sorrows till she should behold the blood upon his grave. She, like Laura Fiaveni, had bent her head above a slaughtered husband, but, unlike Laura, Marcellina Ammiani had not buried her heart with him.
The action now begins in the courtyard of the prison, where, before the jailer's lodge, Marcellina is performing her household duties ironing the linen, to be specific. The duet, quite in the Mozartian vein, breathes simplicity throughout; plain people, with plain manners, these, who express simple thoughts in simple language. Jaquino begins eagerly:
Opera in three acts, translated freely from the French text by JOSEPH SONNLEITHNER. The music is by LUDWIG VON BEETHOVEN. Dramatis Personae. Don Fernando, Minister Herr Weinkoff. Don Pizarro, Governor of a State Prison Herr Meier. Florestan, prisoner Herr Demmer. Leonora, his wife, under the name of Fidelio Fräulein Milder. Rocco, chief jailer Herr Rothe. Marcellina, his daughter Fräulein Müller.
Having thus established this fundamental mood, he gives liberty of individual utterance in the counterpoint melodies with which each personage embroiders the original theme when sung by the others. Neither Rocco nor Marcellina seems to think it necessary to consult Leonore in the matter, taking her acquiescence for granted.
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