Inês morre

The libretto is structured into five short moments. Everything begins with an introductory poem delivered by the character Teresa. This is followed by Pedro’s monologue, in which he confronts his own hesitations and horrors. While Pedro plays with a knife pressed against his chest, Teresa opens the chest containing Inês’s dead body. She takes her out and cleans her. In a third moment, Pedro becomes agitated, removes the crown from Teresa and places it on Inês, awakening her from a confused dream in which history, myth, and poetry merge. The dramatic crescendo reaches its peak as Pedro becomes intoxicated with Inês, unable to distinguish the boundaries between day and night, death and life. However, during this sordid and passionate dance, Teresa intervenes, forcing her lover out of his trance. She eventually removes the crown from Inês, who begins to fade. Pedro, too, collapses into Teresa’s arms. In the final moment, Teresa continues with her firm voice, intoning a concluding poem that brings us back to reality—the reality that separates the living from the dead.