Bruges hates Erich Korngold’s famous first opera. Cast centre stage as the quaint city that has lost all purpose – The Dead City (Die tote Stadt) – home to Paul, obsessed with maintaining a shrine to his dead wife, Marie, the medieval jewel has been, say its admirers, libelled.
English National Opera brings Korngold’s Dead…
Bruges hates Erich Korngold’s famous first opera. Cast centre stage as the quaint city that has lost all purpose – The Dead City (Die tote Stadt) – home to Paul, obsessed with maintaining a shrine to his dead wife, Marie, the medieval jewel has been, say its admirers, libelled.