Der Widerspänstigen Zähmung

National Theatre Mannheim on 11 October 1874 under the conductor Ernst Frank [de]. The libretto, by Joseph Victor Widmann [de] and the composer, is based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. The style of the opera shows Goetz turning away from the musical ideas of Richard Wagner towards the classicism of Mozart. Der Widerspänstigen Zähmung was a huge success, not only in Germany but in the United States and in Great Britain, where it received high praise from George Bernard Shaw.^{[citation needed}