Publisher's Synopsis
Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent generalement telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans les coquilles) aupres de l'editeur. Non reference. Non illustre. 1897 edition. Extrait: ...we are told that he made the actors promise not to utter a note of it outside of the theatre, until it had been produced, so that the airs should be new to the public on the first night. The opening scene of "II Trovatore" is laid in the vestibule of the Count di Luna's palace. His attendant, Ferrando, and several other servants, are lying on the ground, before the door leading into his apartments, while armed men are seen pacing up and down in the background. As the servants are nearly asleep, Ferrando bids them rouse themselves, lest their master, returning from his nightly vigil under the window of his lady-love, should not find them ready to serve him. One of the men now suggests that the count would not be out so often, were he not jealous of a troubadour, who has serenaded Lady Leonora every night of late. To keep the men awake, Ferrando gladly yields to the importunities of one among them, and calling them around him, tells them that their late master was once the proud father of two sons. The younger of these was still a mere infant when the nurse, awakening from a doze one day, saw a gipsy woman bending over the sleeping child, evidently weaving some magic spell. At the nurse's outcry, servants came rushing into the room, and without paying any heed to the gipsy's explanations that she was merely trying to draw the child's horoscope, they roughly ejected her from the castle. But the little boy, who had been perfectly healthy until then, soon showed signs of illness, and as his malady was ascribed to the witch's spells, she was caught and sentenced to be burned at the stake. On heY way to the place of execution, she cursed the count, and called upon her daughter to avenge her...."
