Ullmann's The Broken Jug and Zemlinsky's The Dwarf

Recovered Voices: A Lost Generation's Long-Forgotten Masterpieces

Los Angeles Opera continues its exploration of music by composers suppressed by the Nazis. This season, Music Director James Conlon's multi-year project Recovered Voices presents two exceptional one-act operas.

Alexander Zemlinsky based The Dwarf (Der Zwerg) on Oscar Wilde's one-act tragedy "The Birthday of the Infanta." Viktor Ullmann's The Broken Jug (Der zerbrochene Krug) is taken from a comedy by the Romantic German poet Heinrich von Kleist. Vivid imagery, supercharged emotions, and rich late-Romantic orchestral textures characterize these operas. You'll hear beguiling echoes of Mahler, Strauss and Wagner, but the overall effect is one of exciting musical discovery.

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• la opera
• recovered voices
• james conlon
• viktor ullmann
• alexander zemlinsky
• the broken jug
• the dwarf
• der zerbrochene krug
• der zwerg
• james johnson
• elizabeth bishop
• bonaventura bottone
• melody moore
• rodrick dixon
• mary dunleavy
• darko tresnjak

[tintore]

ugly stage design...

[me148]

amazing

[cratorius]

Stunning. Just stunning. I want to see Der Zwerg live.