At The Opera, Korngold: Die Tote Stadt, July 12, 2014
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Die tote Stadt (German for The Dead City) is an opera in three acts by Erich Wolfgang Korngold to a libretto by Paul Schott, a collective pseudonym for the composer and his father, Julius Korngold; it is based on the 1903 translation by Friedrich von Oppeln-Bronikowski of the 1892 novel Bruges-la-Morte by Georges Rodenbach.
Die tote Stadt had its premiere on December 4, 1920, Korngold was just 23 years old. This 1975 recording stars Rene Kollo and Carol Neblett. Erich Leinsdorf conducts.
8:00 p.m.
Pietro Mascagni
Cavalleria rusticana, opera Intemezzo
Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony; Ondrej Lenard, conductor
8:07 p.m.
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Die Tote Stadt
; Erich Leinsdorf, conductor
10:46 p.m.
Jussi Bjorling
Franz Schubert
Standchen, D957/Op. Posth. No. 4
10:48 p.m.
Jussi Bjorling
Carl Leopold Sjoberg
Enocre: Visions
10:51 p.m.
Jussi Bjorling
Tosti
Encore: Ideale
10:53 p.m.
Jussi Bjorling
P. Tosti
L'Alba separa dalla luce l'ombra, for voice & piano (or orchestra)
10:56 p.m.
Jussi Bjorling
S. Foster
Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair, for voice & piano
11:00 p.m.
Jussi Bjorling
Giordano
Encore: 'Come Un Bel Di Di Maggio'
11:02 p.m.
Jussi Bjorling
Puccini
Encore: 'Che Gelida Manina'
11:10 p.m.
Flagstad/Melchoir
Tristan und Isolde: O sink' hernieder, Nacht der Liebe!
; Edwin McArthur, conductor
11:31 p.m.
Ingvar Wixell
Pagliacci, opera: Prologue: Si pu≥? Si pu≥?
11:36 p.m.
Giuseppe DI Stefano
Massenet
Werther, lyric drama in 4 acts: Pourquoi me rΘveiller
11:39 p.m.
Joan Sutherland
Bellini
I Puritani, opera: Polonaise: Son vergin vezzosa
11:42 p.m.
Ingvar Wixell
Pagliacci, opera: Prologue: Si pu≥? Si pu≥?
11:48 p.m.
Giuseppe Taddei
Puccini
Tosca, opera: Te Deum: Tre sbirri, una carrozza
11:53 p.m.
Pietro Mascagni
Cavalleria rusticana, opera Intemezzo
Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony; Ondrej Lenard, conductor
11:56 p.m.
Czecho-Slovack Radio Symphony Orchestra
Giacomo Puccini
Edgar, opera: Prelude to Act III
Czecho-Slovack Radio Symphony Orchestra; Ondrej Lenard, conductor
