| Page Views: 1,139 Last Visit to Bad Vilbel: April, 2009 | Castle Festival in Bad Vilbel by Nemorino - last update: Apr 7, 2009 |
Donizetti's music kept going on in my head during some of the scenes -- but only in my head, because this time I wasn't watching his fabulous Italian opera Maria Stuarda (which I have seen in twice in Wiesbaden and once in Zürich, so far), but rather the classic German play it was based on, Maria Stuart by Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805). |
| In the castle, before the play |
This is a "what if" drama. Schiller asked himself what would have happened if Mary Queen of Scots (1542-1587) had ever met face to face with her cousin Queen Elizabeth I of England (1533-1603).
This never happened in real life, but in Schiller's play and in Donizetti's opera they do meet, and after this confrontation Elizabeth finally gives in to her advisors and signs Mary's death warrant. |
| The actors taking their bows |
Maria Stuart was the sixth of Schiller's ten plays. He finished it in the year 1800, when he was forty-one years old, five years before his death.
Nearly all of Schiller's plays have been made into operas, by composers such as Gioachino Rossini (Guillaume Tell), Gaetano Donizetti (Maria Stuarda) and Giuseppe Verdi (Giovanna d'Arco, I masnadieri, Luisa Miller and Don Carlos). |
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risse73 Wed Aug 19, 2009 22:28 UTC
Don, the castle festival sounds like my kind of event! :-) How adventurous of you to cycle along the Nidda river bank en route to Bad Vilbel & the castle for a fun outing! Thanks for visiting my Varadero page. Cheers! -Marissa- | Yaqui Fri Jul 10, 2009 03:46 UTC
The castle and festival looks absolutely marvelous. Wonderful page. I enjoy seeing your travels. | VeronicaG Wed Apr 8, 2009 15:21 UTC
The castle has a certain mysterious quality to it--I can only imagine how eerie a production is in the basement! The town itself looks like it has quite a bit of charm... | lynnehamman Thu Apr 2, 2009 00:32 UTC
Lovely page and good info and photos. A fantastic setting for any production! (natural beauty). One wonders about the implications of the Maria Stuart (what IF they had met??would history be different?-regards |
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