BSO’s ‘The Dead City’ was haunting and resonant
On Thursday evening, the orchestra performed the full opera for the first time in its history, in collaboration with Boston Lyric Opera.
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Philip and Goerke soar in BSO’s triumphant “Die tote Stadt”
Premiered simultaneously in Hamburg and Cologne in 1920, Die tote Stadt certainly justified the lofty praise heaped on Korngold in childhood—Gustav Mahler christened him a genius at age 12; a year ...