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Die Tote Stadt in Munich
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 18th November 2019Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s music is being played with exponentially increasing frequency. This past Spring La Scala mounted a production of the composer’s most well known opera Die Tote Stadt. It featured Klaus Florian Vogt and Asmik Grigorian in the two leading roles. In my view the former displayed an undersized tenor for what is one…
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A Guide to Korngold’s Stage Works
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 30th September 2019Schott Publishers has release a guide to the stage works of Erich Korngold. It’s appended below. As can be seen on their announcement they linked to a video of the 1983 Berlin performance of Die Tote Stadt. I was in Berlin during that run and went to one of its performances only to find that…
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Die Tote Stadt in Dallas
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 27th March 2014On March 26, 2014 The Dallas Opera presented the third of its five performance run of Erich Korngold’s opera Die Tote Stadt. First performed in 1920 when the Viennese composer was 23. The opera was simultaneously premiered in Hamburg and Cologne. Korngold is most famous for his movie scores. He had first gone to Hollywood…
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