The performance of Les Huguenots   from which these clips are taken is a modernized version of the opera set in present-day Berlin.   purchase dvd		Les Huguenots Giacomo Meyerbeer
		Act I Aria Raoul, son of the Huguenot Count de Nangis, is attending a dinner at the home of the Catholic Count de Nevers.  The other guests, all Catholic, are uncomfortable at Raoul's presence.  They try to conceal their enmity, knowing that the King's bride, Marguerite de Valois, is determined to reconcile his Catholic and Huguenot subjects, and fearing to oppose her.  In an attempt to relax the tension, the host suggests each guest recount some affair of romance or chivalry, Raoul first of all. Raoul responds with an account of his rescue, that very morning, of a beautiful lady beset by rioting students- a lady with whom he has fallen in love.
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		Act IV Duet The lady turns out to have been Valentine, on her way to the Castle to break her engagement to Nevers, whom she does not love.  In the course of the opera Marguerite de Valois has arranged for Raoul to marry Valentine (and reconcile Catholic and Protestant), and Raoul has rejected this arrangement, incorrectly believing she is involved with Nevers. Rebuffed by Raoul, she has gone on to marry Nevers after all, and Raoul has learned of the error of his ways. He has gone to the Nevers castle to see Valentine, whom he loves, and who still loves him.  At the castle he overhears a plot to massacre the Huguenots. Running to warn his friends, he is stopped by Valentine, and they sing of their love for each other.