When Israeli conductor Omer Meir Wellber, then chief conductor of the Dresden Opera, first heard Viktor Ullmann’s chamber opera The Kaiser of Atlantis, he was struck by the work’s consonance with Mozart’s Requiem. Of course, the Nazis understood the allegory directed against Hitler and ultimately sent the composer and all the musicians to Auschwitz. Another current production of the Volksoper is Let Us Forget the World, which tells about the life of the theater itself during the Nazi regime.
Author: BY VICTORIA MARTYNOV
Published at: 2025-04-23 21:46:32
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