Carl Maria von Weber died on 5 June 1826, at the age of 40 in London, where he had premiered his final opera, Oberon, König der Elfen, at the Haymarket Theatre just a few months earlier. The original English title was actually Oberon, or the Elf King’s Oath, and librettist James R. Planché described it as “a romantic and Fairy opera.” The work indeed exemplified the “fairy opera...
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