Vestas Feuer

About the show

Beethoven completed only the opening scene of Schikaneder’s opera. Volivia and Sartagones pledge their love, but her father Porus objects because of an old feud. Sartagones threatens suicide, prompting Porus to relent; the scene ends with the three united. The larger libretto follows Roman intrigue around Volivia’s refuge as a Vestal Virgin.