Les martyrs

About the show

In Roman-ruled Armenia, Polyeucte secretly converts to Christianity while his wife Pauline still mourns Sévère, the Roman officer she once loved and believed dead. Pauline discovers Christians worshipping in the catacombs and begs Polyeucte to renounce his faith. Sévère returns alive and learns that Pauline is married. After Polyeucte is arrested for his faith, he publicly destroys pagan relics. Pauline pleads with her father Félix and Sévère to save him, but Polyeucte refuses to recant. A vision leads Pauline to convert. At the amphitheatre, she joins her husband and the other Christians as they await execution.