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 [[File:Robin.jpeg|300px|thumb|[[Don Iolio Contrario]] in a detail from [[Birgit von Sachsen-Rampton]]’s portrait]]
-[[Otto Büchstein]]’s obscure tragicomic opera ''[[La Vittoria della Forma sulla Sostanza]]''<ref>“[[The Victory of Substance over Form]]”</ref> is an obscure and now largely forgotten portent of the forthcoming mechanization of the enlightened world. It was hampered on premiere by what theatre-goers found to be a plainly fantastical plot, but more critically was wounded by a brace of especially turgid arias either side of the interval.
+[[Otto Büchstein]]’s obscure tragicomic opera ''[[La Vittoria della Forma sulla Sostanza]]''<ref>“[[The Victory of Form over Substance]]”</ref> is an obscure and now largely forgotten portent of the forthcoming mechanization of the enlightened world. It was hampered on premiere by what theatre-goers found to be a plainly fantastical plot, but more critically was wounded by a brace of especially turgid arias either side of the interval.
 It was translated into English by a theatre-loving commercial attorney, [[Clifford Chance|Francis Coward-Chance]], whose flimsy grasp of Italian {{tag|metaphor}} was surpassed only by his hideous English prose.