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Video. Korngold’s mysterious opera “Die Tote Stadt” mixes Hitchcock and Freud

Updated: 29/11/2019 - 14:49 GMT+1

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Erich Wolfgang Korngold was just 23 years old when he wrote the technically difficult opera - before he knew the limits of the voice, resulting in incredible changes of harmony and rhythm and a "crazy maze of different styles.”

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