Nordisa

Lieutenant Frederick Hansen, a young Army officer, enters the village inn and mentions that he had found the fair dull.

The innkeeper enthusiastically replies that he has, until he learns that the party will include Baroness Nymark and her daughter Minna, at which point he states that his inn is too humble to accommodate them.

On arriving, Minna is keen to join the party that closes the fair, but is forbidden by the Baroness, who is concerned her daughter might be mistaken for a peasant girl.

He confides to his friend Hansen that, despite the fact he is to marry Minna the next day, he actually loves the owner of a mysterious voice he'd heard singing in the mountains.

[1] A bent and ragged old man comes into the village - Andreas Brand - released after 15 years of imprisonment in Siberian mines.

[1] Having unpacked her ample supplies, Nordisa sits in her lonely hut in the mountains only to discover that Oscar has followed her; he tells her that he loves her.

Minna, now revealed as the real Nordisa, is free to marry Hansen, who is delighted to receive the rank of colonel from the King.

[1] In response to the opera's success on its opening night, Carl Rosa gave a supper in celebration at the Grand Hotel in Liverpool.

Among the guests were Frederick Corder, the principal cast, Augustus Harris and James Henry Mapleson.