Rather, it is renewed, like the moon".
One aria in this work describes how its singer would sooner trust his beer to a German or his brandy to a Turk than perform another action. Another of its arias ends with the couplet "A mouth kissed loses no luck, but the song dies in the kiss that touches it" before another character enters with the line "Rather, it is renewed, like the moon". That aria from this opera, sung at the base of an oak tree, is "Dal labbro il canto estasïato vola", and after its performance Fenton is disguised as a monk to help foil the plans of Dr. (*) Caius. The title character attempts to seduce Alice with an aria describing his time as a page to the Duke of Norfolk, while in Act II, a character disguised as "Fontana" sings the aria "È sogno? o realtà". Its title character is tricked into dressing as Herne the Hunter after earlier being hidden in a laundry hamper and subsequently thrown out of a window and into a ditch. For 10 points, name this Giuseppe Verdi opera based primarily on The Merry Wives of Windsor.
One aria in this work describes how its singer would sooner trust his beer to a German or his brandy to a Turk than perform another action.
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