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If you think, because you know Verdi's Luisa Miller, that you also know Schiller's play Kabale und Liebe which it is based, you are hugely mistaken. The play, usually translated as Intrigue and Love, is, despite certain awkwardnesses, a powerful piece of work. The libretto that Salvatore Cammarano contrived from it for Verdi was perhaps adequate to the needs of the young composer, and to the cuts and simplifications required by the opera genre. To Schiller's complex, subtly intricate play, however, it was nothing short of a betrayal.
When Tom Sutcliffe, in the preface to The Faber Book of Opera, calls Schiller the most operatic of play wrights, he does so largely ...