Both "Carlo" and Wurm would like to marry Luisa, and Miller at first thinks his daughter should have the privilege of choosing her own husband. He's called Wurm, and he's an employee of Count Walter. There's also another man with his eye on Luisa. Luisa's father, Miller, is a retired soldier, and he's mistrustful of his daughter's new boyfriend Miller suspects the young man is lying about his identity.
His real name is Rodolfo, and he's the son of the local count, Walter. Luisa, the title character, is in love with a young man she knows as Carlo. But of the two, Luisa Miller is surely the more straightforward and accessible, with its troubled love story plagued by corrupt politics, class conflicts and bitter family squabbles.Ĭount Walter (Carlo Colombara) attacks his own son, Rodolfo (Ramon Vargas), who threatens to reveal his father's role in a murder. That distinction would go to his sprawling drama Don Carlos. Verdi wrote Luisa Miller in 1849, and it's not his most famous Schiller-based opera. It's called Kabale und Liebe - or Intrigue and Love. Verdi based Luisa on a Schiller play with a title that not only describes that opera, but also countless others.
He had little interest in music and his plays aren't as familiar as Shakespeare's, but they did inspire a remarkable number of truly fine musical dramas, including operas about Joan of Arc by both Verdi and Tchaikovsky, Rossini's William Tell, Donizetti's Maria Stuarda, Puccini's Turandot - and Verdi's Luisa Miller. Instead, one dramatist who might appear at the top of that list would be the 18th-century German writer Friederich Schiller.
But Shakespeare has proven troublesome for composers, and only a handful of those operas have been truly successful. After all, his plays have been turned into hundreds of operas. If there were a Top Ten List of great playwrights whose work has also inspired operas you might think Shakespeare would be number one. Krassimira Stoyanova and Ramon Vargas star as the troubled lovers Luisa and Rodolfo, in Verdi's Luisa Miller at the Bavarian State Opera.
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