This 2013 Munich rendition of the 1926 work, conducted by the late Stefan Soltész, might be held together by slender narrative threads, but it is still an important historical curiosity Paul Hindemith ...
A virtuoso enfant terrible during the freewheeling years of the Weimar Republic, Paul Hindemith was later hounded out of Germany by the Nazis. After he settled in the U.S., the composer mellowed and ...
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Paul Hindemith's youthful opera "Cardillac" (1926) was written to shock rather than please, and Opera Boston's recent production of this rarely heard piece stayed true to that ambition. It was updated ...
Hindemith’s Cardillac is a brilliant jeweller with a bad habit: he kills everyone who buys his wares. Hitler’s regime later banned performances of the opera, and Hindemith’s frugal mass-murderer ...
Hindemith set his 1926 opera-an ode to artistic license-in 17th-century Paris. In this Bavarian State Opera production led by Wolfgang Sawallisch, stage director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle draws inspiration ...
Hindemith set his 1926 opera-an ode to artistic license-in 17th-century Paris. In this Bavarian State Opera production led by Wolfgang Sawallisch, stage director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle draws inspiration ...