Cologne scraps its major modern opera

Cologne scraps its major modern opera

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norman lebrecht

February 03, 2022

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Due to the current incidence of infection and the tense pandemic situation, the Gürzenich Orchestra and the Cologne Opera have decided to postpone the production of Die Soldaten’.

Its composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann is the city’s most successful modernist.

Photo: Laura Aikin as Marie in Die Soldaten, Salzburg, 2012

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