The Dead City
Opera in three pictures
Text by Paul Schott based on the drama The Miracle by Georges Rodenbach after Rodenbach's novel Dead Bruges
In German with surtitles
Oper
Premiere 24.09.2022
Location
| Eine Pause
Premiere 24.09.2022
Location
| Eine Pause
Unfortunately, this production is no longer on the schedule
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After the death of his wife Marie, Paul's experience is focused only on their shared past. With the help of mementos, he has withdrawn into a "church of the past. In it, he wants to keep his relationship with Marie alive. In a dream she promises him a reunion. When he meets Marietta, a dancer who seems to be a double of his dead lover, he is overcome by passion and hope. With Marietta, he tries to seamlessly connect with what has been. But she resists being the revenant of a dead woman. In the conflict between frozen memory and disturbing reality, Paul's passion turns into madness.
Erich Wolfgang Korngold was 23 years old when he created a late Romantic masterpiece of intoxicating effect with his setting of Rodenbach's symbolist cult novel to music and became famous at a stroke. One of the most frequently performed composers on German-language stages, the musical wunderkind continued his career in American exile as an Oscar-winning film composer.
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