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Tag Archives: Goethe

Lucky Lieder dip: A celebration of Goethe from James Gilchrist and Anna Tilbrook

This evening of lieder, closing the Cambridge Early Music Festival of the Voice for 2016, included the chance to compare no less than four settings of Goethe’s iconic poem Erlkönig, the eerie tale of a son whose soul is stolen away by the Elf King while his body is being carried on horseback, in his father’s…

May 18, 2016 in Lieder.

Truly, madly, but not quite deeply enough: Massenet’s Werther from English Touring Opera

Goethe’s Sorrows of Young Werther pitted religion against Romanticism in a battle royal for the soul of young Germany, which Romanticism won: Werther became a cult hero, even a fashion icon, to generations of Europeans. Oliver Platt’s reduction of Goethe’s aesthetic manifesto to a kitchen sink drama (played throughout in the same shabby kitchen) gives us a…

November 10, 2015 in Opera.

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