Then comes Verona's turn and Augustin claims her as his already affianced bride.
The black haired lady being the last one left, Mujko begins to count, when Magdalen slowly approaches the King, singing softly: "Take my life, take my all, I will greet thee as my lady, thou, a King's Consort."
Now the King recognises at last his lost lady love. Pushing back Verona, whom Mujko has presented to him he cries: "I choose the black haired one!" and throwing off his disguise he embraces Magdalen.—
The bells of the royal chapel now begin to ring, and the priests receive and bless the three happy bridal couples.
As they leave the chapel they are met by the Paladin, ready to marry his niece to the King.
But Matthias, seizing Magdalen's hand, proclaims her his Consort, and all hail her as Hungary's Queen.
TIEFLAND.
(THE LOWLANDS.)
A musical Drama in two acts and a Prelude by EUGÈNE D'ALBERT.
Text after A. Guivera by RUDOLPH LOTHAR.
With this work the gifted composer has gained a footing, which promises to be permanent in the musical world, for the opera has been accepted by all the leading theatres in Germany and Austria, and its performances in Berlin, in Prague, in Dresden and in Vienna have found uniform appreciation.