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Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Violanta in Acclaimed Production at Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires

Nov. 01, 2010

Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Violanta recently completed a run of four performances at the Teotro Colon in Buenos Aires from October 12 through 19, and the production has received widespread critical acclaim. Pablo Bardin writing in the Buenos Aires Herald comments:

Korngold was an adolescent genius both as pianist and composer widely recognized by Mahler, Nikisch, Walter and Strauss. Born in 1897 in Brno (the Moravian capital), he was soon a part of Vienna’s creative scene. Written when he was 19, his dramatic acumen is surprising in Violanta, a tremendous story of revenge, love and death in Venice during Carnival. As he later did in Die Tote Stadt, he combines drama and comedy with notable effectiveness, with gorgeous Strauss-inspired orchestration and big, Puccinian tunes. Eventually Korngold would become one of the best Hollywood composers.

The late Konrad Hopkins, co-founder of the International Korngold Society, died in May, 2010 and one of his dearest wishes was for the establishment of a permanent Korngold Scholarship to benefit young musicians and students of musicology, who wished to either study the works of Erich Wolfgang Korngold or who sought assistance with their performance studies of his music.

To this end, the executors of his estate have now established The Konrad Hopkins Memorial Korngold Fund in his memory, funds from which will be used to award this scholarship prize on a regular basis. In due course, an appropriate academic institution will be sought as partner for this initiative and matched funding from either a state body or other relevant organization will eventually provide a substantial fund, enabling the scholarship to be awarded on at least a bi-annual basis. Learn more about applying or donating to the fund here.

More on the music of Erich Wolfgang Korngold can be found at schott-music.com and www.korngold-society.org.

Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Violanta (1914/1915)
opera in one act, Op. 8
text (Ger) by Hans Mueller-Einigen
for 2 sopranos, mezzo-soprano, alto, 4 tenors, baritone, bass-baritone and chorus
4(pic).2.ca.3.bcl.2.cbsn-4.3.3.1-3timp.3perc-2hp.cel.pno.mand-str on stage: 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, tambourine
80’

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