Gal / Liu Das Lied Der Nacht 23 CD

After 1933 nobody had the opportunity to hear this opera. Then the Osnabr?ck Music Theater rediscovered Das Lied der Nacht by Hans G and performed it in 2017. This late-romantic opera to a text by Karl Michael von Levetzow premiered in 1926, but since it's composer was of Jewish origin, the Nazis prohibited stage productions of it. During his later years Hans G was doubly forgotten: as one of the many Jewish artists who were forced into exile by the Fascists and as a conservative "very-latest romanticist" pursuing paths laid out by Brahms and Richard Strauss. He himself described Das Lied der Nacht as a "dramatic ballad" symbolically representing the emotional world of a Sicilian hereditary princess destined for sovereignty. The text set in twelfth-century Palermo evokes a magical, romantic world in which Antiquity and Byzantine and Moorish elements combine to form a synthesis of rare fascination and a lyrical blend of European and Oriental culture. After the premiere at the end of May 2017, the NOZ wrote, "Fantastic music, a good libretto, a marvelous performance, an all-around successful rediscovery that the premiere audience in the Osnabr?ck Theater celebrated with abundant applause." Now on cpo and an absolute listening must!