婚礼##@进行曲

　　The setting ^]
\is Vienna in( ^ +19[^14 b@efore the outbreak of war. T@he )^a+^r!$^i[^stocrat=^i+c and somewhat ;`jaded Prince Nicki_\:, pursued by a!;ll the`[; ladi=,;es, begins a) flirtation with Mitzi, a= crippled h[^ a+/rpis#^]t who works _%=in a! s[uburb` a\`n w/#=;ine+--ga=]rden, a,nd who is in tu.!(rn idolized by Sc=?-#hani, an uncouth and( violently jealou,#s $,butcher. The-`%!ir[+ :[firs+t encounter[(-] signif#\icant
ly take!( ]s ?$pla.(ce in f$r. o,*nt of S*`t%^!. @/Stephen's
: %+Ca the$-_dral on C
\-orpus Christi/ day,+?  w+# ,ith Ni#cki amon\:g\ @ the\? emper%or's c
-(:avalry regiment. Later, in the ref.)racted light- of falling apple blos=`so:ms in. the wine-garden--s+ cene()s of a d:* isti 
lled, ether(+eal be;auty#-# /-Nick#i gradually wins her faith and +lo(-ve. Mea?nwhile, ami$[#dst t/he sump?tuous and corrupt mil [ ieu of ]th$e family pala)!ce, Nick) i $;`is draw n ; into co/mp,:licity (]a
]gains+t h[is wil^l,, as hi#;-s uns
(*crup].u l(%ous mot$ )her /( inf--o`^r(((ms hi@+
m*: he must marry Ce celi:a;\%, the -daughte,! r of a  wea$
_lthy+ c?ommoner, in order to*?], revive+= the fam#^ily fortun%+e. Mitz,/i has a vision ?of The I?:.ro^_!n Man =+!(a symbo_
l of! the declining po%.*w-er! and p ositi$on of
(%.the Hapsburg dynast+y)  and fal*ls before the crucifi%x in fear but he;;r@ )@ love re_)mains st\\ead;fast, and she pr`:otests ( her fai@th though abused b..y her m?+oth+\er and Scha.:ni. Infuriat, ed by her reje?ction, Sch,ani threatens to kill Nicki on hi!s wedd][ing[`\.] %day un^les!s Mit+#zi agree$s to marry him. Following the p#r@(*ocessio^nal `*)splen-*;dor of the cathed
ral wedding, Schani appears* to ca]=rry out his`],+ thre%*at, but  Mi%^tzi arrive s i n time to stop hi@m an]@d[ through the downpourin(; g rain N#^icki` sa!(dly gazes./ on his t!rue love in th%@e_^ cr:
owd as h]
==e drives away w-i:t)h his br:@ i$?%de.