O wär ich schon mit dir vereint (Marzelline's aria) (Fidelio)

Composer
Ludwig van Beethoven
Genre
Aria
Composed
1805

History of the work

Marzelline's aria in the first act of Fidelio, in which the gaoler's daughter imagines a quiet married life with the new assistant Fidelio - unaware that Fidelio is a woman. A short, songlike number for lyric soprano.

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