tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post7577666956909882347..comments2024-03-27T23:06:03.736-05:00Comments on The Music Salon: Moses und AronBryan Townsendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-9986070284687575712017-05-11T00:47:14.588-05:002017-05-11T00:47:14.588-05:00Thanks, Will. You have my best wishes and strong e...Thanks, Will. You have my best wishes and strong encouragement to attend some European opera performances!<br /><br />Actually, I have always thought of Berg as being a very likely opera composer, even though he only finished one and part of another! The reason for this is his enormously successful opera Wozzeck, which became a model for 20th century opera composers (and not, interestingly, Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex).Bryan Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-6901449531472071142017-05-10T14:56:55.302-05:002017-05-10T14:56:55.302-05:00Nice pics of the Teatro Real! You are whetting my...Nice pics of the Teatro Real! You are whetting my appetite for a tour of European opera houses (and performances). Hopefully in the next decade I'll fix my career and cobble together the money for such an excursion.<br /><br />Regarding the posthumous completion of Schoenberg's opera, his pupil Alban Berg was an equally unlikely opera composer, who also died before completing his last great opera, "Lulu." A few months ago I had the pleasure of viewing in cinema a live simulcast of the NY Met Opera's production of Lulu, which Schoenberg declined to complete, and which was finally "completed" in the late 1970s by Friedrich Cerha.<br /><br />Will Wilkinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01997868915978439364noreply@blogger.com