Cornelia starts the opera pleading for her husband’s life to be spared and overjoyed when Cesare grants him a pardon. Unknown to them, it is already too late. Within moments of the pardon being issued, Achilla arrives with Pompeo’s head in a bowl: a gift from the king.
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