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James Conlon's "Recovered Voices" Program at Los Angeles Opera

Mar. 06, 2007

Los Angeles Opera presents the first installment of a multi-year project titled "Recovered Voices," a program which features works of composers who were affected by the Holocaust and whose music was branded as degenerate music or "Entartete Musik" by the Nazis. On March 7 and 10 in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, the first performances of "Recovered Voices" will showcase operatic excerpts by Schreker, Braunfels, Krenek, Ullmann, Schulhoff, Korngold and Zemlinsky. Full-scale productions of complete operas by these composers are scheduled for future seasons. "Recovered Voices" will be conducted by LA Opera’s Music Director James Conlon.

The two-night program consists of excerpts from Schreker’s Die Gezeichneten, Braunfel’s Die Vögel, Krenek’s Jonny Spielt Auf, Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis, Schulhoff’s Flammen, Korngold’s Die Tote Stadt, as well as Zemlinksy’s one act Eine Florentinische Tragödie in its entirety. James Conlon elaborates on the mission of the Recovered Voices program:

"The creativity of the first half of the 20th century is far richer than we think. We have a special opportunity at LA Opera to revive works recovered from oblivion and at the same time mitigate a great injustice."

For more information on Walter Braunfels, Ernst Krenek and Alexander Zemlinsky and their works, please visit www.universaledition.com.

More information can be found on Viktor Ullmann, Erwin Schulhoff and Erich Wolfgang Korngold at www.schott-music.com.

If you would like to learn more about Los Angeles Opera, please visit www.laopera.com.

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