Aleko

About the show

A band of Gypsies gathers by a river, where an old man recounts how his lover left him. Aleko, who has joined the group, condemns the old man for not taking revenge. Zemfira, the old man’s daughter and Aleko’s partner, loves a younger Gypsy and rejects Aleko’s possessiveness. Aleko finds them together and kills them; the community spares him but banishes him.