A listener has a rooting interest in Los Angeles Opera’s “Recovered Voices” project. The annual series revives music suppressed by the Nazis, much of it, but not all, by Jewish composers, some of it ...
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Alexander Zemlinsky, who composed several of the most subtly entrancing operas of the early twentieth century, embodied the cosmopolitan chaos of the old Austrian Empire. His father came from a ...
Recovered Voices concerts will feature the works of, from left: Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871-1942), Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951), Franz Schreker (1878-1934) and Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) ...
Stephen Johnson surveys Zemlinsky's opera A Florentine Tragedy. Based on a play by Oscar Wilde, the work is a tragic tale of jealousy and revenge, and premiered in 1917. Show more Stephen Johnson ...
When James Conlon arrived as Los Angeles Opera’s music director in 2006, he immediately discovered that the city might prove the ideal backdrop for what has been one of his key missions, what he ...
Hear music from Zemlinsky's two one-act operas based on works by Oscar Wilde. The American Symphony Orchestra, Leon Botstein, cond. It's been 65 years since the death of Viennese composer Alexander ...
Unfamiliar with the Zemlinksy's music, I found his String Quartet No. 1 a welcome revelation. But the musicians' onstage bonhomie and vivid engagement with the audience, along with their tremendous ...
Donald Macleod introduces the ugly, beautiful, hyper-expressive musical world of Alexander Zemlinsky and his turbulent early life in pre-war Vienna. Many people famously considered Zemlinsky ...
When James Conlon arrived as Los Angeles Opera’s music director in 2006, he immediately discovered that the city might prove the ideal backdrop for what has been one of his key missions, what he ...