A SECRET WEAPON FOR OPERA NEW YORK 2023

requires place in and close to Wartburg Castle, in Thuringia in central Germany, and during the mythical grotto of Venus, the goddess of love. Wartburg was the location of a—maybe legendary—thirteenth-century tune contest and also the dwelling of Saint Elisabeth of Hungary (1207–31), spouse in the Landgrave of Thuringia.Lyric Opera calls for