Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Luisa Miller" opens on a bucolic scene: In Luisa's modest cottage high in the Tyrolean Alps, villagers have gathered to celebrate the young woman's birthday. But Luisa is bursting with news. She's found love in a mysterious stranger who calls himself Carlo, as she explains in her aria "Lo vidi e 'l primo palpito."

Radiating joy, she relates the story of how they met. "I saw him, and it was the first flutter my heart felt of love," she sings. "He barely glanced at me, and my heart leapt with devotion."

But the secret behind Carlo's identity will have devastating consequences — and upend Luisa's life forever. Soprano Leah Crocetto stars in Giuseppe Verdi's star-crossed romance "Luisa Miller," streaming for free the weekend of July 31, 2021: sfopera.com/streaming

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