 Contact (+61 2) 9318 8200 |
 Website www.opera-australia.org.au |
 Location
Opera Theatre, Sydney Opera House, Bennelong Point, Sydney, NSW 2000 |
 Event Date/s
Starts: 30-Jun-2012 Ends: 18-Jul-2012 |
Die tote Stadt - Opera Australia Overview
Photographs, paintings, a lock of hair. Paul clings to the memory of his dead wife, caught between a happy past and an uncertain future.
Can Mariette, who bears an uncanny likeness to his dead wife, help him leave the shadowlands? Or is it a journey he must make all by himself?
Opera Australia presents the Australian premiere of Die tote Stadt, directed by Bruce Beresford and starring Stefan Vinke as Paul and Cheryl Barker in the dual roles of Marie and Mariette.
Korngold is best known as one of Hollywood’s first film composers, with classics such as The Sea Hawk, starring Errol Flynn, to his name. But before film came opera. Die tote Stadt, ‘The Dead City’, is a masterpiece of the twentieth century, full of soaring vocal writing and lush orchestration, reminiscent of Puccini and Richard Strauss.
