No sex please, we’re German
Why is so twinkling, tuneful a score so little known?
Der Vampyr
5 pieces since 2011.
5
pieces
16
years
The queen’s throat
“Trove Thursday ” presents Heinrich Marschner’s Hans Heiling in a 2001 performance from Berlin featuring Alessandra Marc as the title character’s mom, the Queen of the Elves.
The last ruse of summer
Flotow’s Martha, a work of 1847 that was popular around the world for a hundred years.
One from the vault
There has never been a successful vampire musical—so they say. But that’s just not true.
Mast media
I have been tossing and turning over La Cieca’s most recent assignment for me: a CD of Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer based on a performance live in concert from November 13, 2010. The anxiety mainly stems from the fact that, horror to say, I am no Wagnerite. I know that sect of opera buffs has […]