Wagnerianas

  November 20th, 1851. But, according to my inmost conviction since formed, a work of art, and especially a drama, can have its true effect only when the poetic intention in all its more important motives speaks fully to the senses, and I cannot and dare not sin against this truth which I have recognized. By the distinctness of representation which is thus made possible, and which at the same time does away with everything of the nature of a lengthy narration, or at least condenses it in a few pregnant moments, I gain sufficient space to intensify the wealth of relations, while in the previous semi-epical mode of treatment I was compelled to cut down and enfeeble all this. I mention only one thing:—   Há outra carta para Uhilig, November 3rd, 1851.

Scribe 1791-1861 The rise and fall of the well-made play. --by Taylor, John Russell Eugène Scribe and French opera of the nineteenth century Por Karin Pendle · 1979 Italian music is in verse. French music is in prose. F. Castil-Blaze [Francois-Henri-Joseph Blaze], Sur l'Opera