Agnes von Hohenstaufen
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Agnes von Hohenstaufen is a German-language opera in three acts by the Italian composer Gaspare Spontini, the last opera he composed. The German libretto is by Ernst Benjamin Salomo Raupach. It was fi
The composer
Henry V, the Elder of Brunswick, a member of the House of Welf, was Count Palatine of the Rhine from 1195 until 1212.
Agnes von Hohenstaufen
…assembled his forces to march against the Welfs: Agnes of Hohenstaufen, the emperor's cousin, is engaged to be married to the son of Henry the Lion, Henry "Palatinus", but the war brings this alliance into doubt. Henry arrives at Mainz disguised as a troubadour. The French ambassador proposes that Agnes should be…
Henry in the Weingarten Stifterbüchlein, c. 1510