The last act opens with the serpent episode, with characteristic music, and a recitative scene between Euryanthe and Adolar leads up to a pathetic cavatina for Euryanthe ("Hier am Quell wo Weiden stehn").  The ringing notes of the horns behind the scenes announce the approach of the King’s party, who sing a fresh and sonorous hunting chorus ("Die Thale dampfen").  The remaining numbers are a duet for Euryanthe and the King with chorus ("Lasst mich hier in Ruh’ erblassen"), a lovely and melodious aria with chorus for Euryanthe ("Zu ihm"), a bright wedding-march and scene with chorus, and a duet for Adolar and Lysiart with chorus, leading to the grand quintet and chorus which bring the opera to a close.

APPENDIX.

A work of this kind, by whomsoever written, must be somewhat arbitrary in its selection of THE STANDARD OPERAS; and the writer has often found it difficult to say where the line should be drawn,—­what excluded and what admitted.  In addition to the operas treated of, there are others, without a mention of which such a work as this would scarcely be considered complete; and a list of these is herewith submitted, together with the dates of their first performance.  Many of these are familiar to the public by their past reputation, while others still hold the stage in Europe.  Others have never been given out of the native country of their composers; and still others, like those of Mr. Sullivan, are in reality operettas, and cannot be classed as standard, although their popularity is extraordinary.

ADAM — Le Postilion de Longjumeau (1835).

AUBER — Le Cheval de Bronze (The Bronze Horse) (1835); L’Ambassadrice (1836); Le Domino Noir (The Black Domino) (1837); Zanetta (1840); Manon Lescaut (1856).

BALFE — Enchantress (1845); Satanella (1858); Puritan’s Daughter (1861); The Talisman (1863).

BENEDICT — The Lily of Killarney (1862).

CORDER — Nordisa (1887).

DONIZETTI — Polinto (1840); Linda (1842); Maria di Rohan (1843); Don
Sebastian (1843); Gemma di Vergi (1845).

FLOTOW — L’Ombre (1869).

GOETZ — Francesca von Rimini (1874); The Taming of the Shrew (1874).

GOLDMARK — The Queen of Sheba (1875); Merlin (1886); Cricket on the
Hearth (1896).

GOMEZ — Il Guarany (1870).

GOUNOD — Polyeucte (1878).

HALEVY — L’Eclair (1835).

HEROLD — Zampa(1831); Pre aux Clercs(1832).

ISOUARD — Joconde (1814).

KREUTZER — Das Nachtlager in Granada (1834).

LEONCAVALLO — I Medici (1893).

MARCHETTI — Ruy Blas (1870).

MARSCHNER — Der Vampyr (1828); Hans Heiling (1833).

MASCAGNI — L’Amico Fritz (1892); I Rantzau (1892); Silvano(1895);
Guglielmo Ratcliff (1895).

MASSE — La Reine Topaze (1856); Paul et Virginie (1876).

MASSENET — Le Roi de Lahore (1877); Manon Lescaut (1884); Le Cid (1886); Esclarmonde (1889).