goetz's

Updated: August 1, 2026

In the third act comes the marriage of Petruchio and Katharine, and the fourth act shows the taming of the shrew in strict accordance with Shakespeare's comedy. Goetz's music brims over with frolicsome humour and gaiety, and the more serious portions are tender without being sentimental.

R. A. (Richard Alexander) Streatfeild - The Opera : A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory.

But the parts of the work in which Goetz's indebtedness to Wagner are most apparent are the choruses, which, both in their tunefulness and in the elaborate nature of the part-writing, often recall 'Die Meistersinger, and in the orchestration, which is extraordinarily fanciful and imaginative.

R. A. (Richard Alexander) Streatfeild - The Opera : A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory.