Wagner’s Influence on Robert Schumann’s ‘Genoveva’
“Genoveva” is the only opera by Romantic composer Robert Schumann, composed beginning in 1842 and premiering on June 25, 1850, at the Leipzig Altes Theatre. Based on the story of Genevieve of Brabant, the opera coalesced many tropes of German Romanticism with the growing trend and influence of Wagnerian musicality. In 1995, to our luck, the opera was re-premiered again {…}