Word: manfredo
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...Verdi. The time is the middle ages, and the story, quickly told, involves a wife who has been unfaithful to her husband while he is off fighting the invaders. His blind father knows the guilt but not the name of the lover, Avito, so he keeps silence. The husband Manfredo, on his return, is coldly received, but goes again to war with the pledge that Flora will wave to him until his retinue is out of sight. Beguiled by Avito, she leaves the battlements too soon; the blind father strangles her, the husband returns, and the two wooers...
...have been forgiven in return for the impressive manner in which she dominated each situation. The figure of Flora, scarlet-clad, waving to her departing husband from the battlements, is memorable, and the ensuing struggle with Archibaldo before he kills her, is a most impressive climax. M. Baklanoff, as Manfredo, outdid his comrades with a smooth and telling voice: M. Crimi's Avito was less inspired, though agreeable, and M. Lazzari made a vigorous old Archibaldo...