Film

Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Die Tote Stadt

2012 · 2h 2m · Music

In 1920s Germany, Erich Korngold's work was considered “degenerate” and banned. Eventually, in 1934, he left for Hollywood. There, he made a name for himself as a film composer and only rarely wrote great works for the stage. Many of his quite successful operas, composed between 1913 and 1927, stopped being performed after World War II. Among these was his perhaps most significant work, Die tote Stadt (“The Dead City”), which was performed again for the first time after a long hiatus in 1955 in Munich. Further productions followed. Nevertheless, Götz Friedrich's version of 1983 for the Deutsche Oper Berlin was only the fifth new production of the opera after 1945.

James King

Paul

Karan Armstrong

Marietta

William Murray

Frank

Margit Neubauer

Brigitta

Sylvia Greenberg

Juliette

Ruthild Engert

Lucienne

Donald Grobe

Victorin

William Murray

Fritz

David Knutson

Graf Albert

• Götz FriedrichDirector
• Brian LargeDirector

Release date

January 1, 2012

Status

Released

Original language

German

Runtime

2h 2m

Genres

Music