Fairies in Opera, Part 3 - Continental Titanias

sleep for those eight days (presumably to allow the Rezia-emir connection to develop fully). Sherasmin discovers the missing horn on the grounds, too. Without needing fairy assistance, Huon takes away the sword of and strikes down the emir as the latter is just in the act of the latter propositioning the ever-faithful Rezia, and only then is the horn brought forth to cause the slaves who would defend their emir to instead dance away (again, shades of Entführung).

The couple's faithfulness has impressed Oberon, who upon an extra blast of the horn appears with Titania at his side. He transports Huon and Rezia to the court of Charlemagne, where the couple is lauded by the emperor. Oberon and Titania are now speaking to each other again -- "again in love he clasps his fairy queen" -- and only at the cost of a few infidels.

In the next installment of this series, we'll look at what happens when the fairy world clashes with the mortal realm for the possession of fairy subjects.

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