Erich Wolfgang Korngold

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Die Tote Stadt

Klaus Florian Vogt · Tatiana Pavlovskaya · Michael Nagy
Hedwig Fassbender · Anna Ryberg · Jenny Carlstedt
Julian Prégardien · Hans-Jürgen Lazar

Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester
Chorus and Children‘s Chorus of the Frankfurt Opera
Sebastian Weigle, conductor

Bruges la morte – The Dead Bruges: This was the name of the novel published in 1892 that the young Erich Wolfgang Korngold used in 1920 as the basis for his first and most successful opera. The music of Tote Stadt, composed during the turbulent yet wildly creative time of nascent atonality, holds steadfastly to the operatic forms and tonal world of Puccini. Korngold‘s enormous richness of musical colors are irresistible, as are his harmonies – which go to the outermost bounds of the expected – and impressionistic tone-painting.
Together with the Frankfurt Opera, OehmsClassics presents a „Live CD Series“, which experiments with the important „sound-representation“ of voices and orchestra. This gives listeners at home the opportunity to hear a musically and technically flawless premiere evening on CD!