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Thank you for the review! I simply hate Calixto Bieito, as he already ruined Die Gezeichneten in Berlin and Flammen in Prague, but I'll try to go anyway.

No, it's only because I've read directly the "Forbidden Music" book and alas not the blog. That information is neither in the book nor in other Schreker's biographies I knew.

Thank you for the information.

By the way: I wrote my Master (in Italian) about the Lieder of Schreker (all of them) and I'm writing my PhD (in german) about "Die Gezeichneten" and other operas set in the Italian Renaissance. I've seen 5 different productions of "Die Gezeichneten" in the last 5 years, too. So much about my interest for the music.

Hallo Brendan, I have a peripheral question. I read in your article that Maria Binder "was bisxual and enjoyed extra-marital affairs". This information is totally new to me and I would like to know more, if possible. Could you please tell me where did you find it? I'm very interested. Thanks!

I already have them, and since two years!!  Anyway, more should come soon!

Just listened, a vey interesting work and a superb realisation, my compliments! Thank you very much for that!
I had tried to do something similar myself, for exemple with Zandonai's Primavera in Val di Sole, but I don't have such a huge soundbank as you.

Of course the two operas by Moussorgsky  And also their imitation in the Italian opera - for exemple the finale of Montemezzi's L'amore dei tre Re, or some parts of the second act of Zandonai's Melenis

Thank you all very much for your suggestions! And many thanks especially to eschiss1 for his list of operas premiered on Christmas!
How could I forget Werther??

@Gauk (it's that not the name of the actual President of Germany?) - no, by this weather I think that argument to be very appropriated 

@mikehopf it's then an italian opera? I should know it... hmm

I'm trying to make a list of operas which have something to do with Christmas. There are two categories of such works: 1) operas which were first staged/performed during the Christmas days (december 8th-26th) - also, operas composed for Christmas, and 2) operas whose action is set or partially set in a Christmas time.
The most famous of them are Haensel und Gretel (1) and La bohème (2), but there are a lot of not-so-wll know works to be listed, too.

Of the first category I know at the moment only three works, two by Humperdinck: Haensel und Gretel (December 23th), Die sieben Geislein (December 19th), and one by Pfitzner: Das Christ-Elflein (December 11th).

Of the second category I know a bit more titles: Puccini's La bohème; Alfano's Resurrezione; Zandonai's Il grillo del focolare and I cavalieri di Ekebù;  Hermann's Wuthering Heights, Pfitzner's-Das Christ-Elflein, and, I suppose, Goldmark's Das Heimchem am Herd. I cannot remember at the moment of Respighi's Marie Victoire is partially set in a christmas time, too.

Do you know other titles?

Hi all,

I bought the piano score of Hermann Noetzel's "Meister Guido" because I already knew the libretto and I found the subject intriguing. That opera was first performed 1918 in Karlsuhe, and the orchestral score is in the catalog of the Universal Edition.  There's only another listed work of Noetzel, "Pierrots Sommersnacht" (1921). No trace of what the composer could have done before 1918 or after 1921.
I'm not yet sure about the quality of his music, what I played till yet was very repetitive, diatonic and light - anyway, with a length of 160 minutes, a not small orchestra, 6 guitars off stage and a string quartet on the stage that works seems to be pretty ambitious.
Does anyone here knew something about this composer?

Thank you britishcomposer, I din't notice of that concert, I'm going to record it