![]() ![]() The vision fades as Barak returns with his hungry brothers and a group of beggar children. ![]() The Nurse conjures up the apparition of a young man to whom the Dyer’s Wife is attracted the Empress, however, is troubled. Scene 1-In Barak’s dwelling, the Empress, now a servant, helps the Dyer as he leaves for work. Barak returns to find the marriage bed divided outside, watchmen sing the praises of conjugal love. As the Nurse and Empress disappear, the Dyer’s Wife hears the voices of Unborn Children bewail their fate. ![]() Gradually, the Dyer’s Wife weakens before the Nurse’s visions of luxury, agreeing to deny Barak during the three days that the visitors will act as her servants. As Barak goes out, the Nurse and Empress enter the hut in disguise, intent on capturing a shadow for the Empress. The kindly Dyer longs for children, but his wife is reluctant, wary of motherhood without having experienced it. Scene 2-In the humble house of Barak the Dyer, his three brothers fight among themselves and threaten the Dyer’s wife as she curses them the men leave when Barak enters. When the voice of the Falcon is heard reiterating the doom that threatens her husband, she implores the Nurse to help her find a shadow. The Empress now appears, lamenting the loss of a talisman that enabled her to change her form. As he disappears, the love-struck Emperor enters on his way to the hunt in hopes of recapturing the Falcon, whom he wounded for attacking the gazelle he leaves his wife in the Nurse’s care. Scene 1-On a terrace overlooking the Emperor’s palace, the Empress’ Nurse, adept in Black magic, hears the Messenger of Keikobad warn that the Empress, still barren, has only three days left. ![]()
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