Guglielmo Ratcliff

About the show

After rejecting Guglielmo Ratcliff, Maria is pursued by a succession of violent tragedies: Ratcliff challenges and kills her earlier suitors, then duels her betrothed, Count Douglas. A family revelation about Maria’s mother and Ratcliff’s father prompts Ratcliff to plead with Maria to flee. When she refuses, he kills her and her father, then dies by suicide.