Princess Fedora, who is to marry the Count the following day, arrives and sings of her love for him, unaware that the dissolute Count has betrayed her with another woman. The sound of sleigh-bells is heard, and the Count is brought in mortally wounded. Doctors and a priest are summoned, and the servants are questioned. It is proposed that Count Loris Ipanov, a suspected Nihilist sympathiser, was probably the assassin. De Siriex (a diplomat), and Grech (a police inspector) plan an investigation. Fedora swears on the jewelled Byzantine cross she is wearing that Count Andrejevich's death will be avenged.

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Cast

Mirella Freni

Fedora Romazov

Plácido Domingo

Loris Ipanov

Dwayne Croft

De Siriex

Ainhoa Arteta

Olga Sukarev

Yannis Yannissis

Cirillo

James Courtney

Borov

Jean-Yves Thibaudet

Boleslao Lazinski, a pianist