“Gluck, Das Mir Verblieb”.
Sung By: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf.
From: “Die Tote Stadt”.
Composer: Erich Korngold.
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“Die Tote Stadt” (German: “The Dead City”), Op. 12, is an Opera in three Acts by Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897 – 1957), set to a Libretto by Paul Schott, a collective pseudonym for the Composer and his father, Julius Korngold.
It premiered in 1920 and is based on the 1892 novel “Bruges-la-Morte” by Georges Rodenbach.
“Die Tote Stadt”: “The Dead City”.
Libretto cover published in 1921.
Opera in Three Acts.
Founded on G. Rodenbach’s “Das Trugbild”.
Date: Published by G. Ricordi, 1921.
Source:
Author: Composed by Erich Wolfgang Korngold.
Written by Paul Schott.
Based on Georges Rodenbach's novel.
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Dame Olga Maria Elisabeth Friederike Schwarzkopf, DBE
(9 December 1915 – 3 August 2006) was a German-born Austro-British Lyric Soprano.
She was among the foremost singers of Lieder, and is renowned for her performances of Viennese Operetta, as well as the operas of Mozart, Wagner and Richard Strauss.[1][2]
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf in Lucerne, Switzerland.
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf an den Musikfestwochen in Luzern.
Date: 1948-1958.
Source: Stiftung Fotodokumentation Kanton Luzern.
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Author: Max Albert Wyss.
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After retiring from the stage, she was an International Voice Teacher.
She is considered one of the greatest Sopranos of the 20th-Century.[3]
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