[4] After the war, Waltershausen's Wagnerian, late-Romantic musical style gradually lost ground to new musical developments, such as Neue Sachlichkeit and Zeitoper, and the opera disappeared from the repertoire (as was the case with stage works by other post-Wagnerian composers such as Wilhelm Kienzl, Siegfried Wagner, and Max von Schillings), but it was revived for its one hundredth staging on 4 March 1933 at the Berlin City Opera.
It was given a semi-staged performance at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in March 2010, with Jacques Lacombe conducting and Bo Skovhus singing the title role.
[6] Hyacinth Chabert, a colonel in Napoleon's army, is badly injured at the Battle of Eylau in 1807.
Ten years later, in 1817, Chabert arrives in the office of the lawyer Derville, determined to regain his property and his wife Rosine, who has remarried to Count Ferraud.
Overwhelmed, Chabert decides that "the dead should not come back to life", writes a suicide note, and departs for the garden.