Die tote Stadt - Mariettas Lautenlied (Strasbourg'01)

Mariettas Lied (Glück, das mir verblieb) from Erich Wolfgang Korngold's opera Die tote Stadt (The Dead City):
Angela Denoke (Marietta), Torsten Kerl (Paul), Jan Latham-Koenig

Glück, das mir verblieb,
rück zu mir, mein treues Lieb.
Abend sinkt im Hag
bist mir Licht und Tag.
Bange pochet Herz an Herz
Hoffnung schwingt sich himmelwärts.

Wie wahr, ein traurig Lied.
Das Lied vom treuen Lieb,
das sterben muss.
Was haben Sie?

Ich kenne das Lied.
Ich hört es oft in jungen,
in schöneren Tagen.

Es hat noch eine Strophe--
weiß ich sie noch?

Naht auch Sorge trüb,
rück zu mir, mein treues Lieb.
Neig dein blaß Gesicht
Sterben trennt uns nicht.
Mußt du einmal von mir gehn,
glaub, es gibt ein Auferstehn.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• opera
• oper
• marietta's
• aria
• lute
• song
• soprano
• tenor
• duet
• denoke
• kerl
• korngold

[rubisco1981]

Has this perfromance been released on cd or only on dvd?

[Kryltoppa]

Yes, on Arthaus Musik label (Latham-Koenig/ Kerl, Denoke, Batukov, Svenden). Really amazing show.

[jschultz4]

It is great music. But that tenor is working a little too hard. And sliding around too much. This isn't Puccini...

[Kryltoppa]

But it is Korngold, though. He wrote those portamenti on the score, I think.

[novasafo]

Beautiful singing, Beautiful production, Beautiful acting. Why couldn't there be more of this in opera.

[DerOpernfreund]

This is, what we call in german brilliant "Musiktheater". Denoke & Kerl what a perfekt Duo! Very good DVD.

[ManBarbero]

It was so intense!

[lewars1912]

@sandrodream1 Your comment received too many negative votes. I think it's because you put "singed." If you hadn't put that word you would probably have been ok, though you shouldn't have said that "opera should be singed only in Italian." I like Wagner and I don't wish everyone to start singing his Ring Cycle in Italian as it wouldn't sound right. Chinese operas sung in Italian are ok.

[nikodemus7777]

Korngold war ein herausragendes Genie! Schlimm, dass die Musikwelt das kaum erkannt hat. Dabei hatte er das Potential für noch viel größeres. Schade, dass er sich in späteren Jahren so vergeudet hat.

[tetrabiblos]

Beautifully sung (though low level): production looks decidedly iffy. The opera scheduled for production by Australian Opera in 2012.

[MrSwifts31]

Sorry Kryltoppa

I am going to be fussy, and just point out that Korngold was NOT a German composer,he was Austrian.

He was born in Brunn in the Austro Hungarian Empire in 1897.

Brunn is now Brno and in the Czech Republic

[youtubister]

Had to turn the volume up quite a bit. VERY, VERY moving (T_T)

Beautifully staged too.

[Atanomida]

Beautiful! I like this a lot better than the versions of the "famed" sopranos!

[Kryltoppa]

@sandrodream1 Except for ones that were composed in a different language! This is a German opera by a German composer. It is meant to be sung in German!

[yanfrom1987]

SWEET

[rfwilliams37]

Very esoteric opera, not well known 'The dead city' is a jewel, here is the love duet