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WALTER BRAUNFELS
Die Vögel / The Birds
Nightingale - Désirée Rancatore
Good Hope - Brandon Jovanovich
Loyal Friend - James Johnson
Hoopoe - Martin Gantner
Los Angeles Opera / James Conlon
Directed by Darko Tresnjak
Set design by David P. Gordon
Live Recording from the Los Angeles Opera, 2009.
World Premiere Recording on DVD!
A production of the LA Opera House ground-breaking Recovered Voices project, highlighting the works of composers affected by the Holocaust. Walter Braunfels, a strong advocate of neo-Romanticism, made significant contributions to the world of twentieth-century opera. Yet, he lost his rightful places in twentieth-century opera houses. His music inhabits a very different world, both geographically and aesthetically, nurtured far from Vienna’s charged, multi-cultural atmosphere. Deeply rooted in German Classicism and Romanticism, he conceals none of his admiration for the inherited past and sees himself as building on its fundamentals. By almost any standard, he was a conservative. The premiere of Die Vögel in Munich in 1920, under the direction of Bruno Walter (who still lauded the work as late as 1950), was a huge public and critical success. The number of productions and performances in the following years was staggering. However, in the post- World War II years of his “rehabilitation,” Braunfels never regained a foothold. Die Vögel was not produced again until 1971 in Karlsruhe and 1994 in Berlin.
“A rare chance to hear Braunfels‘s lighthearted, tenderly spiritual and little-known fable…“ The New York Times
“A marvelous performance…the orchestra sounded radiant.“ Los Angeles Times
“Conlon conducted with lustrous élan…We should hear more of Braunfels‘ work.” Financial Times, London
Running Time: 132 mins
Sound Format: PCM Stereo, DD 5.1, DTS 5.1
Picture Format: 16:9
DVD Format: DVD 9, NTSC
Subtitle Languages: DE, GB, FR, ES, IT, JP
FSK: 0
Region Code: 0
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