Mirga premieres opera by Nazi-banned composer
mainThe Landestheater Salzburg has given the world premiere of Max Brand’s Stormy Interlude, conducted by its music director, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla.
Brand, whose Maschinist Hopkins was one of the great operatic hits of the Weimar era, was forced into exile and prolonged oblivion by the Nazi regime.
Stormy Interlude, a piece of social realism about a bored adolescent girl, was composed in 1955 and subsequently lost.
The revival appears to have been a popular success. First review here.
photo © Anna-Maria Löffelberger
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