STATE SECRET FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2538, sig. 109-12/185 (damaged)

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00a DEUTSCHES OPERNHAUS PRAG 11 11 years later we know of a Richard Wagner alley, in the gardens of Prague, even of the week in Prague, in it as a novelty of the "Flying Hol harpists on the egg bench they were re-appeared; in the next decades they are given, and they may take place until the happy departures of the „Mastersinger", the „Tristan", separateness of the Duschek's country seat of the Ber- and the Nibelungen-Tetralogy. All these performances have sounded, where Mozart completed the "Don Giovan- dührungen, also one of such an enormous apparatus ni" the work, whose world premiere the demanding work such as the "Rienzi- geschrüelte im Stabentheater the stamp of unique women. Scändetheater in front of him. The waves of Wagner's bee It is of the greatest charm, Mozar! The enthusiasm and enthusiasm which in those days almost seemed to be a question for visitors to the stand theatre to follow the world view went up. From the very feeling with which tender thanks for Bohemia came the visitors on the occasion of this Auf- Prague, which Mozart in contrast to the ungrateful tours in large numbers to Prague. Once again, Viennese people with the most select amiableness were deprived of the stage theatre outside the more or less opposed, Mozart may have stayed in this house, niger theatrical sensations the place deepest and to which he finally gave his "Don Giovanni". Most moving devotion to a master of sounds, when On 29 September, the German theatre was founded. In October 1787, the opera was performed with longing for the centenary of the "Don warten Mozart-Oper". Audience connoisseurs and Giovanni in 1888 all of Prague, with the most intense love of stage artists, said, "that in Prague the likes of them still went on this day. A city that once Mozart An-nichte had not been heard". Mozart himself conducted, and recognized, had given joy, yes luck, his genius swore forever to the Stabentheater the consecration of his genius at the same place that he gave with his. Therefore, this house for all time also divinely granted the "Don Giovanni", faithfulness. Works of Mozart should be dedicated. Another German When one considers these highlights of the Stand Theatre, great master has three years as opera director who directed his work for Mozart, Weber and Wagner be- Stand Theatre. In 1813 Karl Maria von We- strove, for example, that this house, in contrast to the one which, among other things, the first Prague rendition of Beetho- to the opinion of his founder, his actual vens "Fidelio" directed. After three years, celebrations in the music drama area, in the opera, Weber announced his Prague position, and not his personal search and found. This may be due to the special tendency of his work, which did not bring him too much pleasure, but rather to the érfolg of his "Der Freischütz" (The Freischutzer). It must be forgotten, however, that the artistic work on the works of German artists with a singer such as Henriette Sonntag is too tough for the beautiful memories of Weber on this stage. He continued to be a poet, a work that, through decades in Zur 50. Performance of his work, which was celebrated with special education and education of the Germans of Prague, and indeed of Böh's solemnity in 1823, we saw Weber mens bear its fruit. in tireless silent work, away from the loud We remember Richard Wagner's, the all-round successes of the opera, the Germans in Bohemia, but not so closely linked to the history of the Ständethea works of our classics, works of young poets like Mozart. The real meaning of the nation. In all questions, the works of Wagner won first place only after the national, cultural will. Construction of the large opera house, which was supposed to have a European reputation as a caretaker of the famous and unknown actor by many Bayreuth masters. For decades German youth the works of un- 1832 Wagner was mediated on the occasion of the reproduction of his serer poets, apart from the more external symphony for the first time in Prague. "Tannhäuser, "Lo effects of the opera in toughest, best work young hengrin, were led in the stand theatre too enthusiastically up German people the way to their poets. In the course of the