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Opera Music Plot Synopsis
Rimsky Korsakov: Servilia
Servilia, daughter of the senator Soranus, is desired by
her father to contract
an alliance with Trasea, but the latter, hearing of her preference
for his
adopted son Valerius, withdraws his suit. Egnatius, the freedman
of Soranus,
being enamoured of Servilia, conspires against his master
and Trasea, and
intimates to Servilia that her submission alone will secure
their safety.
Valerius has mysteriously disappeared, and Servilia, becoming
a convert to
Christianity, renounces the World. Called before the tribunal,
Trasea and
Soranus are sentenced to banishment, while Servilia is awarded
to Egnatius.
Valerius now returns, bearing a proclamation from Nero that
the tribunal is
dissolved. The sudden reappearance of her lover causes Servilia's
death, and
Valerius is only prevented from destroying himself by the
intervention of his
foster-father. Egnatius, in his woe, invokes the Divine Being,
and the rest join
him in acclaiming the Christian God.
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