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Topic: Opera and Liberty

SCENE VII.—: Enter a Herald, and Count Monterone, who crosses the stage in the midst of Guards. - Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto: An Opera in Four Acts [1851]

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Rigoletto: An Opera in Four Acts, words by Victor Hugo (New York: Fred Rullman, n.d.). Metropolitan Opera House, Grand Opera, Libretto.

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SCENE VII.—

Enter a Herald, andCount Monterone,who crosses the stage in the midst of Guards.

Her.

Open the door, the Count must pass to prison.

[To the guards.

Mon.

Since thou hast been in vain accursed by me,

Since yet no sword has entered in thy breast,

And happy thou must live—

Rig.

No, no, old man, I shall avenge your wrongs.

[Exeunt.