I, uh. Might have added this to my Yuletide letter as Another Thing I Desperately Want :P :D
Now that you mention it, I ALSO really want the Verdi opera (and possibly Schiller play) that the censors made him write about some other place entirely (probably set in Boston :P ) with MT-Wilhelmine duet, and MT-Emperor-Wilhelmine-Katte quartet in the climactic crowd scene. Sadly this would be somewhat harder to come by :)
And I guess in this universe we don't have Don Carlo(s), which... well, since we're making this up, I'm totally going to make up that Schiller wrote this play that was at least as good, and Verdi's opera based on it was also at least as good :)
Umm, for science, where can I get my hands on something describing this medieval legal precedent?
Re: Alternate universes where everyone is at least incrementally more happy
Now that you mention it, I ALSO really want the Verdi opera (and possibly Schiller play) that the censors made him write about some other place entirely (probably set in Boston :P ) with MT-Wilhelmine duet, and MT-Emperor-Wilhelmine-Katte quartet in the climactic crowd scene. Sadly this would be somewhat harder to come by :)
And I guess in this universe we don't have Don Carlo(s), which... well, since we're making this up, I'm totally going to make up that Schiller wrote this play that was at least as good, and Verdi's opera based on it was also at least as good :)
Umm, for science, where can I get my hands on something describing this medieval legal precedent?