The last act has an instrumentalprelude foreshadowing the Hunters' Chorus.
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The first piece, performed with the curtain closed, was an instrumentalprelude to the wedding feast.
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Two circumstances bid us look a little carefully into the instrumentalprelude with which Wagner has prefaced his drama.
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After a brief instrumentalprelude, the second act opens in Daland's home, where the melancholy Senta sits surrounded by her companions, who are spinning.