Name: Die tote Stadt
Start: 1983-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
End: 1983-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Deutsche Oper Berlin

Organization

Dirigent

Heinrich Hollreiser

Regissör

Götz Friedrich

Sångare

Tenor

James King

Paul

Singer

Karan Armstrong

Marietta

Baritone

William McMurray

Frank

Mezzo-soprano

Margit Neubauer

Brigitta

Soprano

Sylvia Greenberg

Juliette

Ruthild Engert

Lucienne

Silent

Jean-Pierre Liégeois

Gaston

Donald Groves

Victorin

Fritz

David Knutson

Graf Albert

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Orchestra

Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin

Others

Choir of the Deutsche Oper Berlin

Ballet

Opera Ballet of the Deutsche Oper Berlin

Die tote Stadt

Berlin

Tyskland

In 1920s Germany, Erich Korngold's work was considered “degenerate” and banned. Eventually, in 1934, he left for Hollywood. There, he made a name for himself as a film composer and only rarely wrote great works for the stage. Many of his quite successful operas, composed between 1913 and 1927, stopped being performed after World War II. Among these was his perhaps most significant work, Die tote Stadt (“The Dead City”), which was performed again for the first time after a long hiatus in 1955 in Munich. Further productions followed. Nevertheless, Götz Friedrich's version of 1983 for the Deutsche Oper Berlin was only the fifth new production of the opera after 1945. Thanks to it, the work became established in the repertoires of many other opera houses, if only as a curiosity.
In the production at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 1983, James King, who debuted at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 1961 and had a great interest in the role, starred as Paul; the internationally renowned singer Karan Armstrong as Marietta; and William Murray as Frank.

Tags
1984, Die tote Stadt, OPERA, E. Korngold, Chor, Orchester und Ballett der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Heinrich Hollreiser, Götz Friedrich, James King, Karan Armstrong, William Murray, Margit Neubauer, Sylvia Greenberg, Ruthild Engert, Jean-Pierre Liégeois, Donald Grobe, David Knutson

Die tote Stadt Korngold

Public

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