This opera's fourth scene ends with music transitioning from the keys of D flat and B flat to the keys of A and E to mark two characters' decision to go to a fair.
This opera's fourth scene ends with music transitioning from the keys of D flat and B flat to the keys of A and E to mark two characters' decision to go to a fair. Church bells toll and an organ plays during a sequence in this opera set in front of a church, depicting the dream its main characters are simultaneously having. This opera closes with a passionate duet in which the protagonists sing "See the moonbeams kiss the woods". Thomas Beecham, who conducted the premiere of this opera, was the first to separately perform an orchestral interlude from it named for an inn where the protagonists wish to dance all night. At the end of this opera, its two main characters scuttle the hay barge they are on and drown together. "The Walk to the Paradise Garden" plays in this opera before one of several meetings between Sali and Vreli and the Dark Fiddler. For 10 points, name this operatic adaptation of a Gottfried Keller short story, with music composed by Frederick Delius.
This opera's fourth scene ends with music transitioning from the keys of D flat and B flat to the keys of A and E to mark two characters' decision to go to a fair.
A Village Romeo and Juliet