For anyone, not just, or maybe especially not just opera buffs, I strongly recommend a listen to this powerful work, from a composer little-known in this country, possibly because he falls between several standard historical aesthetics for the time in which this one and a half two act work was being composed. But this is a work dealing in still relevant ethical and political issues, to do with loyalty in double binding situations compounded by life-or-death choices enforced by having to take sides. Einem copes with the protagonists' escalating dilemma, employing idioms recalling the dispassionate distancing of Stravinsky's "Oedipus Rex" added to Brecht and Weill's ironic take on Mahler in works such as "Der Mahagonny" then turning expressionistic for the physical and psychic violence of the second act, in ways that can't fail to make an impact on listeners. There are 5 more days to listen again:
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Possibly a rights issue. If anyone here missed it, I might be able to assist.Originally posted by Roslynmuse View PostComment
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