Die Vögel

Step back in time with Robert Holliston and Timothy Vernon as they guide you through the creation and the storyline of an #opera nearly lost by history, Walter Braunfels’ The Birds. With Braunfels’ dreamy melodies, the opera shot to acclaim in 1920, being performed over 50 times in Munich alone over the next two years, only to be suppressed by the Nazi regime. Not rediscovered until 1971, The Birds is an opera worth seeing, listening to, and learning about.,