パックの最後の言葉😄
If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended:
That you have but slumbered here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend:
if you pardon, we will mend:
オッフェンバックというとフレンチカンカンの「地獄のオルフェ/Orphée aux Enfers, 1858」だけど、これはC.W.グルックの「オルフェオとエウリディーチェ/Orphée et Eurydice, 1774」のパロディ。のオルフェオが🎻教師で登場し、第1幕の大団円の直前に有名な"Che farò senza Euridice"の一節を歌う😄