I puritani

About the show

During the English Civil War, Puritan Elvira is to marry Riccardo, but she loves the Royalist Arturo. Arturo helps the captured Queen Henrietta Maria escape on their wedding day, causing Elvira to lose her sanity. Months later Arturo returns, and their reunion restores her reason. A pardon from Oliver Cromwell saves Arturo from execution, and the lovers are reunited.