“Fierrabras”?
Is that a heartrending drama about a woman who mistakenly laundered her foundation garments in caustic detergent?
Those would be “Fire-Bras” indeed.
“Fierrabras” was one of Charlemagne’s sons. The opera has some good music, but the dialogue is the kind of stuff that Gilbert & Sullivan made fun of. To stage it today, you’d need the team of Katz & Huyck, who wrote “Raiders of the Lost Ark”, to create new dialogue. Schubert thought he was writing a dramatic opera, but he was actually writing a high adventure comedy.