The stage direction was by Gerald Freedman, with choreography by Joyce Trisler, and the conductor was Julius Rudel.

[4] The European premiere of Beatrix Cenci took place at the Geneva Opera in September 2000.

Count Francesco Cenci has arranged for a masked ball to celebrate the death of his two sons at Salamanca.

The people despise the Count, and his daughter Beatrix and his second wife Lucrecia live in fear of him.

Orsino enters and covers his destruction of Beatrix's letter by saying that the Pope has rejected her plea.