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In 1920s Germany, Erich Korngold's work was considered "degenerate" and banned. Eventually, in 1934, he left for Hollywood. There, he made a name for himself as a film composer and only rarely wrote great works for the stage. Many of his quite successful operas, composed between 1913 and 1927, stopped being performed after World War II. Among these was his perhaps most significant work, Die tote Stadt ("The Dead City"), which was performed again for the first time after a long hiatus in 1955 in Munich. Further productions followed. Nevertheless, Götz Friedrich's version of 1983 for the Deutsche Oper Berlin was only the fifth new production of the opera after 1945. Thanks to it, the work became established in the repertoires of many other opera houses, if only as a curiosity. In the production at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 1983, James King, who debuted at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 1961 and had a great interest in the role, starred as Paul; the internationally renowned singer Karan Armstrong as Marietta; and William Murray as Frank.
Erich Wolfgang Korngold ; nach der Erzählung "Das tote Brügge" von Georges Rodenbach ; Text von Paul Schott ; Inszenierung, Götz Friedrich.
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Karan Armstrong (Marietta) ; Margit Neubauer (Brigitta) ; Sylvia Greenberg (Juliette) ; Ruthild Engert (Lucienne) ; James King (Paul) ; William Murray (Frank) ; Donald Grobe (Victorin) ; David Knutson (Graf Albert) ; Jean-Pierre Liégeois (Gaston) ; chorus and orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin ; conductor, Heinrich Hollreiser.
Stage director, Gö#x88;tz Friedrich ; video director, Brian Large ; choreography, Jean-Pierre Lié#x81;geois ; costume designer, Margit Bardy ; stage designer, Andreas Reinhardt.