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Los Angeles Opera Presents US Premiere of Franz Schreker's The Stigmatized: First Schreker Opera Staged in Western Hemisphere

Jul. 08, 2009

Los Angeles opera has announced its performances of Franz Schreker's The Stigmatized (Die Gezeichneten) beginning on April 10, 2010 under the direction of James Conlon, marking the work's U.S. premiere. Part of the ongoing Recovered Voices project spearheaded by James Conlon himself, in which significant early 20th-century works that disappeared from the stage during the Nazi era in Europe see their revival, the performance marks the first staged production of a Schreker opera in the Western Hemisphere.

The Stigmatized is perhaps Schreker's most exciting work; a drama of love and uninhibited sexual desire. Schreker's 13 operas were immensely successful between 1910 and 1930, with productions mounted in dozens of European cities. However, to this day, not a single Schreker opera has been staged on this side of the Atlantic. The New Yorker comments that the work "vacillates between melodies of Mediterranean grace and textures of other worldly complexity...One scene melts into another with cinematic ease."

For more information on the Los Angeles Opera's production of The Stigmatized, please visit www.laopera.org.

Visit the Franz Schreker Foundation online at www.schreker.org and his composer profile at www.universaledition.com for more information.

Franz Schreker
The Stigmatized (Die Gezeichneten) (1911/1913-1915)
opera in three acts
libretto (Ger) by the composer
principal roles: soprano, 4 tenors, 3 baritones, 3 bass-baritones, bass
4.4.5.3-6.4.3.1-timp.3perc-2hp.cel.pno-str
stage music (can be played by the orchestra): pic, 2hn, 3tp, timp, 2perc, hp, pno, str (1.1.1.1.1)
150'

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