from Act II, Scene 1 of the English opera
The Bohemian Girl by Michael William Balfe
Libretto: Alfred Bunn
Role: Arline, daughter of Count Arnheim, raised in a gypsy camp
Voice Part: soprano Fach: lyric soprano
Setting: A gypsy camp, near Presburg
Synopsis: Arline, daughter of Count Arnheim, has been raised in a gypsy camp. She has no conscious memory of her father, from whom she was separated when a child. She tells Thaddeus, a Polish exile who has also been living with the gypsies for several years, of a dream she had.