Schoeck opera under the magnifying glass
In connection with the project " 'Das Schloss Dürande' by Othmar Schoeck - Scenarios for an Interpretive Restoration", a dissertation on librettistics was announced.
According to a statement from the Bern University of the Arts, Thomas Gartmann is leading an investigation into where and how Nazi contamination is noticeable: in Hermann Burte's libretto and in the history of its creation, performance and reception.
An artistic perspective explores the extent to which the work can and must be recreated, with a partial re-texting by Francesco Micieli, more closely based on Eichendorff's original and retaining as much as possible of the dramaturgical structure coined by Schoeck, as well as a new musical version of parts of the work with preliminary instrumental retouching by Mario Venzago.
A project page will be launched soon at: www.hkb.bfh.ch
The dissertation on librettistics was publicly advertised: www.hkb.bfh.ch/de/hkb/stellenangebote
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- Telegram from Hermann Göring dated April 14, 1943 to Heinz Tietjen, director of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden. The work was premiered there on April 1. The Reichsmarschall's telegram led to the opera being canceled (source: Staatsoper Berlin 1993 programme booklet)
