Die Kinder der Heide

Die Kinder der Heide (The Children of the Moorland) is a four-act opera by Anton Rubinstein, to a libretto by Salomon Mosenthal, based on a verse novel by the Hungarian poet Carl Beck.

I am hoping that with my present attempt, I shall have more luck, and then the world will have something novel in store!

Maria confesses to her father that she is in love with a mystery man, who turns out to be Count Waldemar.

In a forest hideout, Wania is visited by the grieving Conrad and Maria, who has gone mad.

Soldiers arrive to arrest Wania; when he refuses to escape with Isbrania she stabs herself and dies.