SCENE II
Reading edition
PINEL À LA SALPETRIÈRE
Characters:
Pinel Patients Aides and Attendants
A courtyard scene in Salpetrière in 1792. Hopelessness and chained despair are pictured. Pinel enters, is saddened and indignant at the sight of so much unnecessary suffering, and instantly orders the chains to be struck off. The historic episode closes in a graphic tableau depicting the gratitude of the released.
MusicOrchestra
"Kammenoi Ostrow"