An der geliebter ‘ferne’ An der geliebter ‘ferne’

Franz Schreker’s Die Gezeichneten, today’s Talk of the Town candidate for a Met revival, was presented on Trove Thursday four years ago in a broadcast starring Evelyn Lear and Thomas Stewart; so instead today Chris’s Cache offers Der ferne Klang.

By February 20, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Tomb raider Tomb raider

Despite the continued popularity of Der Freischütz in German-speaking countries, are the magical mature operas of Carl Maria von Weber otherwise really so problematic, their libretti so unwieldy to explain their continued absence from the world’s stages?

By July 28, 2014 at 3:10 PM
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It’s not easy being Greek It’s not easy being Greek

Sergey Taneyev, pupil of Tchaikovsky and teacher of Scriabin and Rachmaninov, composed just one opera, Oresteia, premiered in 1895 when he was 39.

By July 30, 2013 at 10:16 AM
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From a distance

Asking New Yorkers to travel two hours to the remote but beautiful campus of Bard College in New York’s Hudson River Valley to see an opera can be like asking them to cross the Sahara. Yet if there is any opera I would put my life at risk to see again, it just might be…

By July 31, 2010 at 10:21 AM
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