1806–54, German The German soprano Henriette Sontag made her debut in 1821 as the princess in Boieldieu’s Jean de Paris (1812). In 1823, in Vienna, Weber asked Sontag to create the title role in his Euryanthe (1822–23) after seeing her in Rossini’s La donna del lago. He was justified when her appearance in Berlin in 1825 caused an ...
in political and national rivalries in which real life was entwined with the fate of characters caught up in epoch-making events. Introduction | Early Romantic | Opera Personalities | Henriette Sontag | Early Romantic | Opera Techniques | French Grand Opéra | Early Romantic | Opera ...
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