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| Composer | Ullmann, Viktor (1898-1944) |
| Period | Early 20th century |
| Year | 1943 |
| Work type | Opera / Oratorio |
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GenevaIn virtue of…
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Birman, Ullmann
Marc Hajjar; Stéphane Ghislain Roussel; Grand Théâtre de Genève; Peggy Wurth; Jean-Pierre Michel; Ensemble Contrechamps
ViennaKaiserRequiem
Ullmann, Mozart
Andreas Heise; Volksoper Wien; Sascha Thomsen; Johannes Schadl; Orchestra of the Vienna Volksoper
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Death, interrupted: KaiserRequiem moves at the Volksoper
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Omer Meir Wellber’s Mozart-Ullmann mash-up sounds like a terrible idea, but absolutely hits the mark.
Death is the star in a biting Kaiser von Atlantis at the Barbican
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Ullmann's one act opera, written in the concentration camp at Terezin, receives a powerful performance from the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
An effectively unsettling The Emperor of Atlantis at Oper Köln
Though straightforward in concept, Oper Köln's production of the one-act opera written in the Theresienstadt concentration camp brought the opera's profound themes to the surface in an excellently sung performance.
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An end to death: Viktor Ullmann’s The Emperor of Atlantis
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Written while the composer was imprisoned in the Theresienstadt ghetto, Viktor Ullmann’s powerful opera imagines an end to death.