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Schumann's Manfred in the mental theatre

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 January 2004

LAURA TUNBRIDGE
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Byron was determined from the start that Manfred should not be performed on stage. Writing from Venice in spring 1817 he told his publisher, John Murray, that: The thing I have sent you will see at a glimpse - could never be attempted or thought of for the stage . . . I composed it actually with a horror of the stage - with a view to render even the thought of it impracticable, knowing the zeal of my friends, that I should try that for which I have an invincible repugnance - viz. - a representation.

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Cambridge Opera Journal , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , July 2003 , pp. 153 - 183
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© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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