-
Distraught by the memory, Azucena makes Manrico swear to take revenge on the Count di Luna.
NPR: Improbable Beauty: Verdi's 'Il Trovatore'
-
The Count orders her burned at the stake, and Azucena is taken into custody.
NPR: Improbable Beauty: Verdi's 'Il Trovatore'
-
But Ruiz rushes in to tell them that Azucena has been captured and condemned.
NPR: Improbable Beauty: Verdi's 'Il Trovatore'
-
He recognizes Azucena as the very woman who kidnapped and, he thinks, murdered the Count's infant brother many years ago.
NPR: Improbable Beauty: Verdi's 'Il Trovatore'
-
When the Count agrees, she secretly swallows a slow-acting poison and then runs to the prison, where Manrico and Azucena are being held together.
NPR: Improbable Beauty: Verdi's 'Il Trovatore'
-
Azucena watches resolutely as Manrico is led to the executioner's block.
NPR: Improbable Beauty: Verdi's 'Il Trovatore'
-
Manrico is horrified when Azucena goes on to say that, in her delirium, she grabbed her own baby and flung him into the fire by mistake.
NPR: Improbable Beauty: Verdi's 'Il Trovatore'
-
She tells the graphic story of her mother, who was burned at the stake, and how Azucena then kidnapped an infant, intending to burn him alive as revenge.
NPR: Improbable Beauty: Verdi's 'Il Trovatore'
-
In PART THREE , "The Gypsy's Son, " the Count di Luna is preparing to attack a castle where the two lovers are hiding out when Ferrando enters, dragging Azucena behind him.
NPR: Improbable Beauty: Verdi's 'Il Trovatore'
-
Azucena nurses her son, Manrico, who is wounded.
NPR: Improbable Beauty: Verdi's 'Il Trovatore'