We are NEW OPERA, opera for the 21st century and beyond, a fresh new approach to a 400-year-old artistic medium with the goal of reaching the widest possible audience and ensuring the continuing legacy of an art form that we love and cherish.
In a letter to Theodor Uhlig, dated December 1850, Wagner says: "My book on opera and drama will be at least twice as big as The Art-work of the Future. I add a diagram, as to which I am not sure whether I shall put it into my book or not."
French theatre and opera 19th century the romantic dramas of Victor Hugo, whose Hernani liberated playwrights from the confining traditions of the past, and by those of Alexandre Dumas pre. Eugne Scribe, Victorien Sardou, and Alexandre Dumas file.
