Talk:Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient

Assessment comment
Substituted at 10:34, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Regarding Richard Wagner
Before he had completed Die Feen, which was never performed during his lifetime, Wagner's disillusionment with the prevailing style of German gothic-horror romanticism had begun. In the theatre at Würzburg he had been exposed to recent Italian operas and, though be affected to despise the simple orchestration of The Italians and their apparently casy access to melody, he could see that, aesehetically, their operatic style was obviously superior to the labored pedantry of what was being composed in Germany. He returned to Laipzig early in 1834, and there in March be attended a performance of Bellini's I Capuleti ed i Montecchi in which his idol Schröder-Devrient sang the role of Romeo. Source - Wagner and his world, by Charles Osborne Page 15, last paragraph. 204.115.126.10 (talk) 15:38, 15 September 2023 (UTC)