Princess Fedora, who is to marry the Count the following day, arrives and sings of her love for him, unaware that the dissolute Count has betrayed her with another woman. The sound of sleigh-bells is heard, and the Count is brought in mortally wounded. Doctors and a priest are summoned, and the servants are questioned. It is proposed that Count Loris Ipanov, a suspected Nihilist sympathiser, was probably the assassin. De Siriex (a diplomat), and Grech (a police inspector) plan an investigation. Fedora swears on the jewelled Byzantine cross she is wearing that Count Andrejevich's death will be avenged.
Mirella Freni
as Fedora Romazov
Plácido Domingo
as Loris Ipanov
Dwayne Croft
as De Siriex
Ainhoa Arteta
as Olga Sukarev
Yannis Yannissis
as Cirillo
Vernon Hartman
as Lorek
James Courtney
as Borov
Stephen West
as Grech
Charles Anthony
as Desire
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
as Boleslao Lazinski, a pianist
Roberto Abbado
as Self - Conductor
