The Genesis of the Opera

Hugues, a young man destroyed by the death of his wife, thinks he has met her again seeing an unknown woman passing in the street, with an amazing resemblance to the deceased. Unfortunately, the copy is far from the original, can't replace his obsession for his wife, and the young man ended up strangling her with a lock from the hair of her dead love. ...

In 1916 Julius Korngold, Erich's father, meets playwright Siegfried Trebisch, that is thinking on adapting Rodenbach's play "Le Mirage". Trebisch confides to Mr. ...

Though Die Tote Stadt is the most celebrated of Korngold's operas, the rest of his lyrical pieces are also very enjoyable.

Der Ryng des Polykrates was written by a seventeen years old Korngold, and was ...

Lotte Lehmann and Jan Kiepura in the Vienna staging


After the big hit of Die Tote Stadt, the new Korngold's opera was eagerly awaited. The premiere was in Hamburg and Vienna, but, after a short series of performances, it just dissapeared ...

After the failure of Heliane, Korngold decided to wrote an opera similar to the "Zeitopern", then in vogue. However, this is not the style in which he feels more comfortable, and also he is always looking more ...