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Bard SummerScape is offering the belated American premiere of “Das Wunder der Heliane” as part of a deep dive into Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s work. By Seth Colter Walls ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — ...

Composer Erich Korngold’s 1920 “Die tote Stadt” is not an unfamiliar title to opera regulars, though the piece is sparingly performed by American companies. It is hard to say why, really; it is an ...

“That sounds like film music” is a put-down that deserves to be retired. The usual intention is to dismiss a work as splashy kitsch. Over the past century, though, enough first-rate music has been ...

Die tote Stadt (German for The Dead City) is an opera in three acts by Erich Wolfgang Korngold to a libretto by Paul Schott, a collective pseudonym for the composer and his father, Julius Korngold; it ...

Paul, the obsessive widower in Erich Wolfgang Korngold's opera "Die Tote Stadt" ("The Dead City"), lives a solitary life amid a homemade shrine filled with relics of his dead wife. He calls it the ...

Odyssey Opera has been around for just one year, but seems to have already found its voice and claimed its niche. Its most recent accomplishment, on Saturday night in Jordan Hall, was a triumphant ...

Well, it was an idea. After presenting Erich Wolfgang Korngold's lushly romantic Die tote Stadt four years ago, the Dallas Opera decided to program the composer's effervescent first opera, the one-act ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Michael Cooper Erich Wolfgang Korngold — a Viennese prodigy who wrote several operas before fleeing the Nazis and moving to Hollywood, where his ...

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ERICH Wolfgang Korngold's rarely heard opera Das Wunder der Heliane is an artifact from a high period of Viennese style: Specifically, the 1920s. This was a time made vivid by experimental, yet still ...