Count Julian

“See thy lost child,” Opas pleads. But Count Julian, already haunted by the ruin he has brought upon Spain, will not stop until King Roderigo is stripped of power.

Walter Savage Landor sets this tragedy in a Spain convulsed by war with the Moors. In Julian’s camp, the Metropolitan of Seville urges him to think of Covilla, his daughter, now an outcast; Julian answers with grief, guilt, and a vow to avenge the wrongs he lays at Roderigo’s door. Yet his rebellion has unleashed suffering on countrymen who never wronged him, and Opas presses him to reckon with the lives caught in his cause. Then a herald arrives bearing a message of peace—and Julian recognizes the visitor as the king himself. Can honor, fatherly love, and vengeance survive the choice Julian has made?

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