tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-58165872791522808992008-04-09T19:25:00.000+01:002008-04-09T19:25:00.000+01:00I love Die Tote Stadt to bits, I think it's a grea...I love <I>Die Tote Stadt</I> to bits, I think it's a great opera, Strassian modernism and Viennese schmaltz and all. The Royal Opera House production in 2009 should be well sung and conducted, if the past histories of the people involved are any indication.<BR/><BR/>Yikes is that Naxos recording bad! The score is cut to bits, the singing is strictly provincial level (for an opera that needs lungs that can sing Wagner well) and the sound is iffy. Much better is the RCA recording or the newly released version from Munich 1952 with Karl Friedrich and Maud Kunitz. They really have the style down. <BR/><BR/>Have to make a pilgrimage, as it were, to Brugge one of these days.Henry Hollandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15871451112170286316noreply@blogger.com