Work: Brettl-Lieder (Cabaret Songs)

For the last concert of her Perspectives series at Carnegie Hall, Renée Fleming assembled one of the least coherent concept programmes imaginable. Billed as “Vienna: Window to Modernity”, it was never clear what was specifically Viennese about the music on show, nor what was particularly modern, nor what windows had to do with anything.

Einen weiten Bogen spannten Amarcord Wien und Iris Vermillion bei der Styriarte; von Schönbergs Brettl-Liedern über Weills Opern bis hin zu Stolz‘schen Operettenmelodien.