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English National Opera has arrived at the Dead City, and who, before Christmas, would have given odds that this new production of Korngold’s Die tote Stadt would ever make it this far? This is late-Romantic music-drama on an exuberant scale; it simply doesn’t lend itself to pubs and car parks (even the reduced version staged
Taxing lead roles bravely taken, but Korngold's life-over-death dynamic doesn't quite work. Opera review by David Nice
Annilese Miskimmon’s new production of Korngold’s hallucinatory 1920 work sacrifices some of its disturbing power but musically it is magnificently alert to the mood-shifts and beauty of its sound-world
In this new ENO production, Korngold’s hallucinatory opera boils with atmosphere and tests two excellent lead singers to their limits
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