Chapter CXCVIII: Act III: In a dungeon sits the bird once so gay. For "dead, dead, dead

must he be and so slip with hurrahs into the infernal abode." And they lead you to the gallows and tell you your sentence. And the _King_ and the people, the envious singers and the _Princess_ sick unto death on her bier are all there. Now choose your last present, you poor gallows bird. So let me once more sing. And, "see, Oh see, how the delicate face is covered with a rosy glow." He is singing her back to life, the lovely _Princess_, until finally she flees to his arms: "Thou art mine!" Now leave the gallows, there is a wedding today. "A great magician is _Lobetanz_, let the couple only look, the gallows shine with luck and lustre; spring has done wonders."

DER CORREGIDOR

THE MAGISTRATE

Opera in four acts; music by Hugo Wolf; text by Rosa
Mayreder-Obermayer. Produced: Mannheim, June 7, 1896.

CHARACTERS

THE CORREGIDOR (magistrate) _Tenor_
DOÑA MERCEDES, his wife _Soprano_
REPELA, his valet _Bass_
TIO LUCAS, a miller _Baritone_
FRASQUITA, his wife _Mezzo-Soprano_
JUAN LOPEZ, the alcalde _Bass_
PEDRO, his secretary _Tenor_
MANUELA, a maid _Mezzo-Soprano_
TONUELO, a court messenger _Bass_

Act I. The miller, _Tio Lucas_, is living a happy life with his beautiful wife, _Frasquita_. Her love is so true that jealousy, to which he is inclined, cannot thrive. Jealous? Yes, he has a bump of jealousy. True, the _Corregidor_, who eagerly concerns him about the miller's pretty wife, has one too. But no matter, he is a high, very influential functionary. Meanwhile _Frasquita_ loves her _Tio Lucas_ so truly that she can even allow herself a dance with the _Corregidor_. Perhaps she will cure him so, perhaps she will obtain in addition the wished-for official place for her nephew. The _Corregidor_ too does not keep her waiting long and _Frasquita_ makes him so much in love with her that he becomes very impetuous. Thereupon he loses his balance and the worthy official falls in the dust, out of which the miller, without suspecting anything, raises him up. But the _Corregidor_ swears revenge.