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Aria from the opera Die tote Stadt by Erich Wolfgang Korngold

"Glück, das mir verblieb" (German for "Happiness that remained") is a duet from the 1920 opera Die tote Stadt (The Dead City) composed by Erich Wolfgang Korngold to a libretto by his father Julius Korngold.

It is written for soprano and tenor.

Also called "Marietta's Lied" or the "Lute Song", it appears in act 1, scene 5. In performances as a concert aria, the soprano will sing both parts.

Context

The "dead city" in the opera's title is Bruges, Belgium, identified in the opera with Marie, the dead wife of Paul.

At the start of act 1, Paul confides in a friend the extraordinary news that he has seen Marie, or her double, in the town and that he has invited her to the house.

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She arrives, and Paul addresses her as Marie, but she corrects him: she is Marietta, a dancer from Lille. He is enchanted by her, especially when she accepts his request for a song, "Glück, das mir verblieb". The