It is true that I deceived you, [ (With mystic fervor.) True that I went away from you and wed Another---- (Giorgione: Ah!) And yet it was not Luzzi! [ (As he gazes.) Do you not know? you who so oft have told On saintly walls the Magdalen's sad tears? Sin, sin had seized me! Sin with you to whom I gave my body and soul unboundedly. We revelled in unwedded ecstasy, Laughed in our love over the starred lagoons. Sang till the lute was like a thing that lived, Danced happy as the fauns and nereids That oft you told me of-- And clasped and kissed, O kissed--until I knew that but one way Was left to save my soul, Giorgione, one-- To wed me with the vows and veil to Christ. [ (Gazes at a crucifix.) (Giorgione: Isotta!) I am His! I fled to Him! The Convent opened its grey arms to take me, Santa Cecilia of the Healing Heart, And Luzzi kindly led me to its door-- That you might so be foiled of following. And with long vigils, fasts and penances And prayers I sought oblivion of your face. Until this illness strangely fell upon me. I could not die until you, shriven too....

Isotta Monologue from The Immortal Lure

Rehearse Isotta's monologue