Saturday, February 1, 2025
8:00 PM
Erich Korngold’s opera Die tote Stadt (The Dead City) is an incredibly tender work, begun when the composer was only 19. When he completed it at age 23, it quickly became one of the biggest operatic successes of the era, laying the groundwork for Korngold’s later success as a legendary Hollywood film composer. The opera’s theme of struggling with the memory of a lost loved one undoubtedly resonated with audiences still traumatized by the recent catastrophe of World War I.
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Christine Goerke, soprano (Marietta/Marie)
Amber Monroe, soprano (Lucienne)
Elisa Sunshine, soprano (Juliette)
Karen Cargill, mezzo-soprano (Brigitte)
David Butt Philip, tenor (Paul)
Joshua Sanders, tenor (Victorin)
Neal Ferreira, tenor (Gaston)
Terrence Chin-Loy, tenor (Graf Albert)
Elliot Madore, baritone (Frank/Fritz)
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
James Burton, conductor
Boston Lyric Opera Chorus
Brett Hodgdon, conductor
Erich KORNGOLD Die tote Stadt
Presented in collaboration with Boston Lyric Opera
To hear a preview with soprano Christine Goerke and the BSO's Anthony Fogg on GBH's The Culture Show with Jared Bowen, use the player below.
To see a libretto with both the sung German text and a side-by-side English translation, visit Orpheus Ireland.