Very nice! I love the artwork! :)
And here's another sumptuous,lavishly orchestrated operatic blockbuster! A morbid plotline,though! :o I'd definitely take the late Patrick Moore's advice and observe the sun by focusing a telescope (pointed at the sun) on a piece of white card! But,hey,that's just me! ::) Fortunately,I'm not a character in an opera! At least,as far as I know?!!
Eugen d'Albert: Die Toten Augen Cpo 2 cd's
I'd love to hear more of d'Albert's music, so this may be a good place to begin!
https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/dalbert-die-toten-augenHe was taught by Arthur Sullivan, arranged the piano reduction for the vocal score of Sullivan's
The Martyr of Antioch (1880) and provided the overture to
Patience (1881) under Sullivan's guidance...
:)
...oh, and he had six wives (although, as far as I know, he didn't have any of them beheaded).
:D
Yes,if you enjoy that kind of opera,you should enjoy Die Toten Augen. It's nothing like Tiefland! To my ears it's sound world is much closer to the only Schreker opera I know at all,Der Schatzgräber! Lush,sumptuous late romantic orchestration. I haven't listened it for a few months but I seem to recall there are some purely orchestral passages. A feast for the ears! The sort of music you just let wash over you! A perfunctory look at the libretto,perhaps,now & again! (An english libretto is included!) I would have preferred a happy ending myself,though! :(
