Das Rheingold condensed to two lines:
Until with pulsing wealth the house is filled,
No-one believing, everybody thrilled.
Das Rheingold condensed to two lines:
Until with pulsing wealth the house is filled,
No-one believing, everybody thrilled.
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In these lines, do you have any idea what opera or operas are referred to?
Drink poison, drink her joyous last, a waltz
Rubato from his arms who sobs and stays
Behind, death after death, who fairly melts
Watching her turn from him, restored, to fling
Kisses into the furnace roaring praise.
I couldn’t say for sure; there are a lot of ladies who die in operas!
It made me think of La Traviata, but Violetta doesn’t drink poison. I asked the family opera buff – he suggested Il Trovatore, where Leonora drinks poison in the first act.