The standard operas, their plots and their music; . ginative girl, who,though she has an accepted lover, Eric, is so fascinated withthe legend of the stranger that she becomes convinced sheis destined to save him from perdition. When he arrives withher father she recognizes him at once, and vows eternalconstancy to him. In the last act, however, Eric appearsand reproaches Senta with her faithlessness. The strangeroverhears them, and concludes that as she has been recreantto her former lover, so too she will be untrue to him. Hedecides to leave her; for if he should remain, her penaltywould be
The standard operas, their plots and their music; . ginative girl, who,though she has an accepted lover, Eric, is so fascinated withthe legend of the stranger that she becomes convinced sheis destined to save him from perdition. When he arrives withher father she recognizes him at once, and vows eternalconstancy to him. In the last act, however, Eric appearsand reproaches Senta with her faithlessness. The strangeroverhears them, and concludes that as she has been recreantto her former lover, so too she will be untrue to him. Hedecides to leave her; for if he should remain, her penaltywould be eternal death. As his mysterious vessel sails awaySenta rushes to a cliif, and crying out that her life will bethe price of his release, hurls herself into the sea, vowing tobe constant to him even in death. The phantom vessel sinks,the sea grows calm, and in the distance the two figures areseen rising in the sunlight never to be parted. The overture characterizes the persons and situations ofthe drama, and introduces the motives which Wagner ever. c/) 3 1^ i5
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