“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.
Hey...you gave me an idea!
A New Opera of...
“Raiders of the Lost Ark”!
Too bad Wagner is not alive. He could write some great leit motifs for the nazis (ducks LOL>>>)
I know. I’m very very bad and just broke Godwin’s law. hehehe