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…actress at the Magdeburg Theater. Following the failure of “Das Liebesverbot,” the couple moved to Konigsberg, where Wagner secured an engagement at the theater. Despite a tumultuous journey, marked by…

…principal conductor of the Royal Provincial Czech Theater. His opera, The Brandenburgers in Bohemia, was performed at the theater after being entered anonymously for a competition. Following its success, Smetana…

…father, Franz Anton von Weber, was a musician and an ambitious theater enthusiast who organized a travelling theater company. His mother, Genovefa Weber, was a Viennese singer. The family’s rich…

…passion, however, lay in creating comic pieces for the musical theater. He began composing operettas in 1847, with his first work, L’alcove. Despite initial challenges in staging his pieces, Offenbach…