"The Hector Beriioz opera ""Beatrice et Benedict"" is based on which of Shakespeare's plays?"
Béatrice et Bénédict truce is signed, we'll be enemies again tomorrow". There are several recordings of the opera. The overture, which refers to several passages in the opera without becoming a pot-pourri, is heard on its own in concerts and has been recorded many times. Béatrice et Bénédict Béatrice et Bénédict ("Beatrice and Benedick") is an opéra comique in two acts by Hector Berlioz. Berlioz wrote the French libretto himself, based closely on Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing". Berlioz had been interested in setting Shakespeare's comedy since his return from Italy in 1833, but only composed the score of "Béatrice et Bénédict" following
The Plays of William Shakespeare "A Dictionary of the English Language", Warburton's publishers, Tonson et al., granted him permission to work on Shakespeare. In the "Proposal", Johnson describes the various problems with previous editions of Shakespeare and argues how a new edition, written by himself, would correct these problems. In particular, Johnson promised to "correct what is corrupt, and to explain what is obscure". He would accomplish this by relying on "a careful collation of all the oldest copies" and to read "the same story in the very book which Shakespeare consulted". Unlike other editors who "slight their predecessors", Johnson claimed that "all that is