Beverly Sills as The Merry Widow. The widow is entertaining guests at a party she has thrown and sings this particular aria. The lied tells of a mountain nymph named Vilja who entrances a hunter with her great beauty.
As it was at the overture and shall be at the exit music, bliss without end. Amen.
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