Giordano - Fedora, Act III - Marton, Giacomini, J. Rescigno cond. (Miskolc, Hungary, June 21, 2006)

FEDORA, opera in 3 acts by Umberto Giordano (in concert)
CAST & PLOT:
Fedora Romazoff - Éva Marton
Loris Ipanoff - Giuseppe Giacomini
Countess Olga Sukarev - Orsolya Sáfár
De Siriex, diplomat - Péter Kálmán
Dimitri, stable boy - Adrienn Wagner
Désiré, servant - Dániel Potyok
Baron Rouvel - Dávid Szigetvári
Cirillo, coachman, and Lorek, surgeon - András Hábetler
Dr. Boroff - Zsolt Tihanyszegi
Grech, policeman - Máté Szécsi
The Hungarian State Opera, Orchestra & Choir
Conducted by Joseph Rescigno
PLOT [from en.wikipedia.o...)]
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Act 3: The Bernese Oberland in Switzerland
Loris and Fedora are now lovers and living in her villa. With them is her friend, Countess Olga Sukarev. De Siriex arrives to invite Olga on a bicycle ride. He tells Fedora that as a result of the letter she had written to the police chief, Loris's brother, Valeriano, was arrested for being part of the plot to murder Count Andrejevich and imprisoned in a fortress on the Neva river. One night the river flooded and the young man was drowned. When Loris's mother heard the news, she collapsed and died. Fedora is anguished - she has been the cause of two deaths. Loris receives a letter from a friend in Russia who tells him of the deaths of his mother and brother and that the cause was a woman living in Paris who had written a letter denouncing him to the police. Fedora confesses to Loris that she had written the letter and begs his forgiveness. When he initially refuses and curses her, Fedora swallows poison which she had hidden in the Byzantine cross she always wore around her neck. Loris begs the doctor to save her, but it is too late. Fedora dies in Loris's arms.