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One of opera’s great “what ifs?” is what would young Erich Wolfgang Korngold have contributed to the repertoire had the likes of The Adventures of Robin Hood not beckoned him to Hollywood?
3 pieces since 2015 — in 3 roles, at 2 companies, most often at Staatsoper Hamburg.
2 pieces as Staatsoper Hamburg — stats above show all coverage for Lauri Vasar.
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Aribert Reimann’s 1978 opera Lear, based of course on Shakespeare’s titanic tragedy King Lear, is a major achievement in modern operatic scoring.
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