Die tote Stadt Jan 30 & Feb 1, 2025 Symphony Hall Music by Erich Wolfgang Korngold Libretto by Paul Schott Presented by Boston Symphony Orchestra in collaboration with Boston Lyric Opera Erich Korngold’s Die tote Stadt (“The Dead City”) is an incredibly tender work, embodying the twilight of the Romantic era. Korngold, a remarkable prodigy who later became one of Hollywood’s most important composers, began the opera when he was only 19 and completed it at age 23. It opened simultaneously in December 1920 in Cologne and Hamburg and became one of the biggest operatic successes of the era. The opera’s theme of struggling with the memory [...]
