Mezzo-soprano Seonjeong Kim Recital by Kreisler, Od (2018/2018), Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea

“Guten Abend mit Lola Blau” (Good Evening with Lola Blau) focuses on ‘Hoyte Abend: Lola Blau’ composed by Georg Kreisler, and is composed by well-known domestic artists such as Danny Ashkenazy, Eduard Kühnecke, and Billy Colo. It is a new one-man musical theater created by reconstructing operetta, cabaret, and salon music by German composers. This musical play, translated by mezzo-soprano Kim Seon-jeong and arranged by conductor Koo Ja-beom, is full of songs that are popular but elegant, elegant but powerful, and sentimental but touching. All songs will be performed for the first time in Korea. This musical play, with endless philosophical lyrics that seem like a play on words, depicts the turbulent life of Lola Blau, a Jewish female vocalist who dreamed of opening the most conservative stage, an opera house, in the most conservative city of Vienna before and after the Nazi occupation of World War II. . Lola, who was completely indifferent to politics and only dreamed of self-realization through the stage, gradually opens her eyes to society as she goes through a helpless ordeal. Will this artist be frustrated, or will he eventually overcome?