Bored aristocrat, Lady Harriet Durham, disguises herself as a servant girl and attends the Richmond Fair. She doesn't know that the Fair indentures servant girls for a year to the highest bidder an...
Bored aristocrat, Lady Harriet Durham, disguises herself as a servant girl and attends the Richmond Fair. She doesn't know that the Fair indentures servant girls for a year to the highest bidder and Lionel, a young farmer, bids successfully for her. Alone with him, Lady Harriet--now called Martha--attempts to relieve the awkwardness of the situation (you can try anything in opera so long as you sing it) by singing her favorite air, "The Last Rose of Summer". Flotow took his text from a poem by Thomas Moore and borrowed the melody from an old Irish air. Lady Harriet: 'Tis the last rose of summer, left blooming alone; all her lovely companions are faded and gone. No flower of her kindred, no rosebud is nigh to reflect back her blushes or give sigh for sigh. I'll not leave thee, thou lone one, to pine on the stem; since the lovely are sleeping, go sleep thou with them. Thus, kindly I scatter thy leaves o'er the bed where thy mates of the garden lie scentless and dead."
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