Students from The Glenn Gould School at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto will present the Canadian premiere of Korngold’s only operetta - and in the original 1946 English version, which has never been performed before! The musical comedy "Die stumme Serenade" (The Silent Serenade) is bas...

A new CD entitled "Exiles" is due for release on the Music & Arts label, CD number 1371 By the gifted American pianist Eric Le Van. Recorded by Bayerischer Rundfunk in Munich, Germany February 2009 Release date: 1st August 2013 More details on http://www.pianistericlevan.com/music/2164 Repertoire in...

My contacts in Japan have just informed me that in fact the actual stage premiere will take place on:- March 8, 2014, at the Biwako Hall Center for the Performing Arts, Shiga (Ryusuke Numajiri conducts the Kyoto Symphony Orchestra) This performance is prior to its transfer to Tokyo on March 12 for t...

The New National Theatre in Tokyo will present Die tote Stadt in March 2014, marking the work's Japanese stage premiere in a production imported from the Finnish National Opera. New National Theatre Tokyo   Korngold: Die Tote Stadt Dates: 12, 15, 18, 21, 24 March 2014 Singers: Paul Torsten Kerl Mar...

This is well worth reading! The article (from a Korngold blog and reprinted on this opera website (from Argentina!) is by Larry Rothe. Larry Rothe is an interesting writer (based in Berkeley, California) and some on this list may already know his excellent book "For the Love of Music" (written with ...

Better late than never! Much of what the author says is true. However, I wish that journalists would stop declaring that Korngold "stayed on" in Hollywood, after A Midsummer Night's Dream. He didn't. He was not an exile by choice and divided his time between Vienna and Hollywood until the Anschluss ...

Dear Dennis Anthony Adverse was cut by 20 minutes or so for its 1956 reissue and I think this Spanish release may derive from this version. I have never seen the cut print and have no idea which scenes were removed. Similar cuts were made to Sea Hawk for its 1947 reissue and Captain Blood in 1951. I...

Check the following link: http://www.sothebys.com/en/search.html#keywords=Korngold Sotheby will offer three priceless Mss items, all given to Korngold's old friend Rudi Duschnitz, and later given back to Korngold's younger son George in the 1970s. They are now mysteriously offered for sale and if yo...

At 108 minutes this would appear to be the longest print yet available!

Hi Dennis

I hope so but haven't finalised which performance yet. Sadly it will not be filmed for TV or broadcast on radio.

"If ever you needed a musical snapshot of Vienna between the wars, this is it. (Even though the Third Quartet was composed after WWII). The benign shadow of the elderly Brahms occasionally hovers; likewise, the less benign shade of Schoenberg ­ but – don’t worry, the music occasionally strains ...

Check out this link. A most attractive issue.

http://www.pentatonemusic.com/pags/5186 ... QwoE.email

http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/whats-on/201 ... t-06/14662

Even though the website erroneously gives the key as F# minor, this is exciting news!
Korngold's Symphony is an ideal work for the Proms and finally after a long campaign, it has finally made it!

Korngold's first two operas will be performed together on the same bill for the first time since 1936, at the Augsburg Stadttheater, Germany. Premiere is May 31 2013. See below Erich Wolfgang Korngold Der Ring des Polykrates / Violanta Zwei Opern-Einakter von Leo Feld und Julius L. Korngold / Hans M...

From the Dallas Opera website!! "The third production of the 2013-2014 “By Love Transformed” Season is another first for the Dallas Opera: the North Texas premiere of German (sic) composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s twentieth-century masterpiece, DIE TOTE STADT (“The Dead City”), which open...