Posts Tagged 'Erich Wolfgang Korngold'

A New “Eine Nacht in Venedig” From Oper Graz On CPO

What grabbed my immediate attention with this new Eine Nacht in Venedig on cpo are the names on the cover:

In 1924 Betty Fischer created one of the greatest operetta roles of the 20th century: Gräfin Mariza in Emmerich Kálmán’s

You know it’s Korngold alright from the very first bars: it’s an explosion of sound, hyper-intense like the opening of

On Screen

Is Korngold’s 1920 psycho thriller Die tote Stadt an operetta? Obviously not, but there are various links to the genre,

There is no shortage of Eine Nacht in Venedig recordings. Some of them are all-time classics, such as the Elisabeth

News

Erich Wolfgang Korngold is mostly remembered today as an adapter of operettas. He re-wrote many famous shows and created versions

28/03/2012·1 comment·

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The fourth of Offenbach’s great opéras-bouffes burlesqueing ancient historical legend or mythology (after Orphée aux enfers, Geneviève de Brabant and

Korngold und die Operette – das ist ein faszinierendes Thema, weil es den Komponisten im Spannungsfeld von ideologischen Widersprüchen der