In the park of the palace in Potsdam there is a small round temple with a seated statue of a woman in it. She is holding a book in her hand, perhaps her memoirs, which divulge some rather unpleasant secrets for her contemporaries, perhaps the libretto to the opera “L’ Huomo”. Frederick the Great erected the “temple of friendship” for his favorite sister Wilhelmine, the Margravine of Bayreuth who died at the age of 49. Both had suffered under their father Friedrich Wilhelm I, the “soldier king”, both finding refuge in the arts, especially music.
The opera “L’Huomo” by Wilhelmine, Friedrich II’s sister, in Potsdam – Culture
