Author: philsoperaworld
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Ruggiero Leoncavallo: Der Roland von Berlin (1904)
Oper im vier akhten. Running Time 2 hours 18 minutes. Welcome to my super-sized review! Basically, this is my surah Yusuf. Now that I recently spent 3300 words on an opera by an Austrian Jew set in Italy, let me spend 5500 words on an opera by an Italian “Jew” set in Germany. A little […]
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Franz Schreker: Die Gezeichneten (1918)
Opera in three acts. Running Time: 2 hours 50 minutes. I had meant to release this earlier, but after I initially reviewed the, cut, 2005 Salzburg production, I felt I needed for this to be much, much longer. I can only suggest the 1995 London-Decca Entratete Musik release for this one since it is the […]
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Franz Schreker: Der Singende Teufel/The Singing Devil (1928)
Opera in four acts. Running Time: 1 hour 52 minutes. Schreker wrote this opera mostly because of his life-long love for the organ. It is a classic tale of Pagans vs. Christians. Although it was warmly received by the public in 1928, it was a critical flop, and his publisher, Universal Edition, initially refused to […]
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Franz Schreker: Irrelohe (1924)
Opera in three acts. Running Time: 2 hours 7 minutes. Irrelohe was designed to be the next big thing in German opera in the mid-1920s, and it flopped abysmally. This was mostly because Schreker attempted, and failed, to please literally everyone. Conservatives found it too modern-sounding (it does start to resemble Bartok in places), and […]
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Franz Schreker: Der Schatzgräber (1920)
Opera in prologue, four acts, and epilogue. Running Time: 2 hours 30 minutes. I wanted to complete Die Gezeichneten first, but I ended up completing this one first. The operas of Franz Schreker only make sense when they are watched in performance. This probably becomes more and more progressively apparent as one takes each opera […]
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