Bomarzo

About the show

The hunchbacked Duke Pier Francesco Orsini drinks a potion his astrologer says will grant him immortality. As the poison takes effect, he recalls episodes from his life: the death of his father and brothers, his troubled courtship and marriage to Julia Farnese, and his suspicion that she is betraying him with his brother Maerbale. He orders his slave Abul to kill Maerbale. The astrologer prepares the potion again as Bomarzo’s nephew Nicolás watches; Nicolás poisons it, and the Duke dies after drinking.