Erich Wolfgang Korngold News

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra returns to WVU Concerts kick off Nov. 5 with 'Movin' Out' star Cavanaugh Some of the world's top musicians, conductors and composers will perform at West Virginia University when ...

Operas that plumb the inner musings of characters are always tricky affairs. Often, what rattles in the brain is never as captivating as what happens in the flesh.

People disagree about many things, but there are few veins more divisive or unpredictable in the arts than surrealism - or, to call it by its drearier name, "listening to someone else tell you their dreams." ...

With hands-on-hips to San Francisco Opera's General Director David Gockley - ' "Do you know where you are?!" Erich Wolfgang Korngold's 1920 opera DIE TOTE STADT is the third entry into SF Opera's 2008-09 ...

Torsten Kerl as Paul mourns for his dead wife in the San Francisco Opera production of "Die Tote Stadt" at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, Calif.

Paul, the obsessive widower in Erich Wolfgang Korngold's opera "Die Tote Stadt" , lives a solitary life amid a homemade shrine filled with relics of his dead wife.

The Bluffton University Artist Series kicks off Thursday in style with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra at 7:30 p.m. in Yoder Recital Hall.

Much of the background music you hear at the movies is just that - background. But occasionally film scores enjoy a life of their own, even making their way onto the program of a classical music festival.

A child prodigy seeks to realize his potential, writes an acclaimed opera, and ends up as one of Hollywood's most successful composers. This is not the plot, but the back story to Erich Wolfgang Korngold's 'Die Tote Stadt,' which opened the Summer Opera Theatre Company's 30th season at Catholic University's Hartke Theatre on Saturday night.

'Die Tote Stadt' has tended to attract more attention for its history than as a work. It is occasionally produced, but best known for its knockout soprano aria (which turns into a soprano-tenor duet) in Act I, and for its status as the most significant serious score of a career that never quite lived up to its promise, at least in the classical arena. Film music fans could justly protest: Korngold was virtually responsible for the development of the film score as a serious form of musical expression, writing the music for 'Captain Blood,' 'Robin Hood,' and 'The Sea Hawk,' among others. But his so-called serious music is seldom performed, with the exception of 'Die Tote Stadt.'

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THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD, from a screen play by Norman Reilly Raine and Seton I. Miller fashioned after the Robin Hood legends; musical score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold; directed by Michael Curtiz and ... via Free Republic

Last Saturday's Visions Cinmatiques program at the Gaillard - the latest in the Charleston Symphony's Masterworks series - offered a feast of incredibly colorful and evocative music, plus the welcome chance to ... via Charleston City Paper

“And to play it with the CSO and David Stahl is a dream that is becoming a reality.”

Charleston Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Yuriy Bekker will play the Violin Concerto in D Major by Erich Wolfgang Korngold on Saturday at Gaillard Auditorium. via The Post and Courier

“The popular usual-suspect operas will always be our bread and butter. But this year our mission is to go further”

Sinous and seductive: Danielle de Niese will play Galatea at the Royal Opera House in March. via MediaGuardian.co.uk

Review by CHRISTY YOONG The MPO struck all the right notes in a difficult piece writteBy 'the last romantic'. J. S. BACH'S KEYBOARD CONCERTOS KORNGOLD'S SINFONIETTA Feb 16 & 17 Dewan Filharmonik Petronas IT'S ... via The Star Online

The music of Erich Wolfgang Korngold has enjoyed a little renaissance over the last decade or two. via WETA 90.9 FM

“The Beethoven C minor piece we'll play is beautiful, so intense, so energetic. I adore Korngold, his pieces are so romantic and sweet.”

An endowment by a longtime member of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Boca Raton allows music lovers to enjoy classical music by noted professional artists. via South Florida Sun-Sentinel

This weekend's performances by the Utah Symphony offer something for those who like their artists successful--and long-suffering. The first half of the program features works by Erich Wolfgang Korngold and ... via Salt Lake City Weekly

“Wallace and Heggie both understand the theater and its needs”

The world premiere of "The Bonesetter's Daughter," a new opera by Stewart Wallace and San Francisco author Amy Tan based on Tan's best-selling novel; the West Coast premiere of Jake Heggie's "Three Decembers"; ... via Contra Costa Times

VIENNA : Success came early to Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Prodigiously endowed with musical gifts, he was also the son of one of Vienna's most powerful music critics, who fervently championed his cause. via International Herald Tribune