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In the later shortened version, Cain’s family pleads with him to reconcile with Abel. Cain agrees, but the demon Anamalech curses their happiness and destroys Cain’s altar. Anamalech shows Cain a vision of his descendants’ suffering and gives him a club from Hell. Abel urges Cain to return to the family, but Cain kills him during a storm. Cain confesses, descends into guilt and madness, and flees with his family; angels carry Abel to heaven.
Disinherited by his father Dolmon for marrying Hélène, Silvain lives as a poor farmer. After a landowner’s gamekeepers accuse him of poaching, Silvain recognizes the landowner as his father. Dolmon relents, and the family reconciles. The opera also argues for peasants’ traditional rights to the land.
In the later shortened version, Cain’s family pleads with him to reconcile with Abel. Cain agrees, but the demon Anamalech curses their happiness and destroys Cain’s altar. Anamalech shows Cain a vision of his descendants’ suffering and gives him a club from Hell. Abel urges Cain to return to the family, but Cain kills him during a storm. Cain confesses, descends into guilt and madness, and flees with his family; angels carry Abel to heaven.
Disinherited by his father Dolmon for marrying Hélène, Silvain lives as a poor farmer. After a landowner’s gamekeepers accuse him of poaching, Silvain recognizes the landowner as his father. Dolmon relents, and the family reconciles. The opera also argues for peasants’ traditional rights to the land.