Opera in the 20th century
tue 4 jul 2017 14:00 hour
The history of the opera from 1900 until now. #26: 1925.
In 1925 opera was thriving. Just take a look at the long list of operas and operettas below. So we had to make choices, and we did! Leoš Janáçek twice, Franz Léhar, and with ‘Wozzeck’ by Austrian composer Alban Berg added, it appears to be a Central and Eastern European tête-à-tête today.
We will start, however, in Italian beauty with Riccardo Zandonai and his ‘I cavalieri di Ekebù’, of which the story was derived from ‘Gösta Berlings Saga’ by the Swedish writer and Nobel Prize winner Selma Lagerlöf, who we all know from the widely known children’s book ‘The wonderful adventures of Nils Holgersson’ from 1960.
