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Ernst Krenek
Krenek: Orpheus and Eurydike - op. 21
Text bearbeitet von: Franz Werfel
Dichter der Textvorlage: Oskar Kokoschka
UE8154
Type: Libretto/Textbuch
ISBN: 9783702421847
ISMN: 979-0-008-06923-9
Description
The myth of Orpheus – presiding over the birth of opera 400 years ago, and repeatedly reworked over the centuries – also provided operatic inspiration for Ernst Krenek. In his Orpheus und Euridyke Op. 21, the tender, tragically misled singer becomes the man of sorrows of the fragmented 20th century. For the work’s 1926 première in Kassel, Krenek described his approach in these terms: ‘Eurydice’s ghost appears for the final showdown with Orpheus. She wants to be free from him forever. Both find rest only when Eurydice gives all her suffering back to Orpheus and kills him. With their deaths, the bad luck perishes.’ The libretto, incidentally, is by Oskar Kokoschka, who wrote it during his imprisonment in Russia.
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Type: Libretto/Textbuch
ISBN: 9783702421847
ISMN: 979-0-008-06923-9