Między wizją a praktyką. Początki niemieckiej opery romantycznej w ujęciu E.T.A. Hoffmanna
Between vision and practice. The beginnings of German romantic opera from E.T.A. Hoffmann’s perspective

Summary/Abstract: This article is devoted to the theory of new German opera created by E.T.A Hoffmann and the first attempt to putting it into practice. His short story entitled The Poet and the Composer (1813) and released in the Leipzig “Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung” is a romantic opera, written in two voices, which draws inspiration from the supernatural world and aims at a coherent poetic vision. E.T.A Hoffmann realised in Undine (1816) some of the postulates articulated in the analysed short story and in the correspondence from that time, using Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué’s libretto based on the fairy tale novella bearing the same title, thereby showing the way to further development of the genre.

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