God of our refuge!_ remains in suspense and the orchestra brings it to an end, the first example of a practice used frequently in modern works.
We do not know how Meyerbeer got his idea of putting the schismatic John Huss on the stage under the name of John of Leyden.

Whether this idea was original with him or was suggested by Scribe, who made a fantastic person out of John, we do not know.

We only know that the role of the prophet's mother was originally intended for Madame Stoltz, but she had left the Opera.

Meyerbeer heard Madame Pauline Viardot at Vienna and found in her his ideal, so he created the redoubtable role of Fides for her.

The part of Jean was given to the tenor Roger, the star of the Opera-Comique, and he played and sang it well.