2019/01/09

Theatre with Goethe-Schiller-Denkmal


 Audio Comment by Bob Muscutt



The Stern, a large circular opening among the trees (i.e., in the Park on the Ilm), with walks radiating from it, has been thought of a as a place for the projected statues of Goethe and Schiller. In Rauch’s model for these statues the poets are draped in togas, Goethe, who was considerably the shorter of the two, resting his hand on Schiler’s shoulder; but it has been wisely determined to represent them in their ’habit as they lived’, so Rauch’s design is rejected.
– from George Eliot, Three Months in Weimar



















About the middle of September, the theatre opened and we went to hear Ernani. Liszt looked splendid as he conducted the opera the music – the grand outline of his face and floating hair were seen to advantage as they were thrown into dark relief by the stage lamps. The Weimar theatre is very pretty and commodious.
– from George Eliot, Recollections of Weimar



Extended reading from George Eliot, Three Months in Weimar/Recollections of Weimar, by Margot Erbslöh.




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