The title character dies in a violent explosion rather than from the brutal torture that befell the historical leader of the Anabaptists on whose life this work is based.  
Among the unusual scenes from this opera is in the third act, during which a depiction of frivolities on a frozen lake calls for singers to perform on roller-skates, although more serious are the performance of the  "Triumphal Hymn" and the bitter "O Priests of Baal."  Its Ad Nos ad Salutarem Dei music was later the subject of a series of organ variations by Liszt. Eugene Scribe made alterations in the life of the historical figure on which it is based, changing him from a tailor's apprentice to an innkeeper, while conveniently omitting his sixteen wives and relocating all of his love towards the female lead Berthe.  The title character dies in a violent explosion rather than from the brutal torture that befell the historical leader of the Anabaptists on whose life this work is based.  FTP, name this work dramatizing the life of John of Leyden, a grand opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer.
Among the unusual scenes from this opera is in the third act, during which a depiction of frivolities on a frozen lake calls for singers to perform on roller-skates, although more serious are the performance of the  "Triumphal Hymn" and the bitter "O Priests of Baal."  
The Prophet (or Le Proph?e)