 Mahler realised the weaknesses of the libretto and the absurdities of the plot; in particular, in the third act, the ludicrously implausible meeting of all the characters in the middle of a rocky waste, a scene which he always alluded to as 'the merry folk reunited'.Leo Slezak played Adolar, Leopold Demuth played Lysiart.The composer and musicologist Donald Francis Tovey regarded "Euryanthe" as musically superior to Wagner's better-known opera "Lohengrin" (whose plot and music echo "Euryanthe" in several respects, especially with regard to the use of "Leitmotiv" technique) and made a new performing version, while Arturo Toscanini conducted the La Scala premiere in 1902.