This task feels near impossible, as I listen to a LOT of art song singers on repeat, across decades and continents (from piano to orchestral works) — mostly for pleasure, but also for study.
Too young to be in love. But not too young to go to war or to die.
Although Gustav Mahler never wrote an opera, his colossal Eighth Symphony “The Symphony of a Thousand” may give us some glimpses of what a Mahler opera might have sounded like
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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