Low-mass dileptons at the CERN-SpS: evidence for chiral restoration?

Using a rather complete description of the in-medium rho spectral function - being constrained by various independent experimental information - we ca lculate pertinent dilepton production rates from hot and dense hadronic mat ter. The strong broadening of the rho resonance entails a reminiscence to p erturbative q (q) over bar annihilation rates in the vicinity of the phase boundary. The application to dilepton observables in Pb(158AGeV) + Au colli sions - incorporating recent information on the hadro-chemical composition at CERN-SpS energies - essentially supports the broadening scenario. Possib le implications for the nature of chiral symmetry restoration are outlined.