번역될 언어: 영어
The curtain slightly drawn aside reveals the Nightingale who, from the branch of a bushy tree, looks at the audience with surprise. After greeting them coquettishly, he welcomes them to the Kingdom of the Birds, where life is carefree and happy and love is tender and faithful, and invites them to follow their tune, full of longing and homesickness, so as to forget all earthly worries.