Credits:

Alejo Perez

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Upon returning to Germany from his wanderings, the knight Ruprecht is startled when a stranger named Renata calls out his name at the inn where he is staying. Renata asks him, We once lived together, but she abandoned me and left. Please take me to Cologne so I can find Count Heinrich, the incarnation of the Fire Angel Madier. He agrees and sets off with her. Having fallen in love with Renata, Ruprecht tracks down Count Heinrich in Cologne and challenges him to a duel on the banks of the Rhine. Severely wounded, Ruprecht recovers thanks to Renatas care and once again seeks her love, but she rejects him. Renata then flees to a convent, where she is put on trial by the Inquisition and sentenced to be burned at the stakeAlthough the work was completed in the 1920s, perhaps due to aversion to its radical occultism and sexual depictions, its premiere (at the Teatro La Fenice) had to wait until 1955,