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Theater Bonn – Schreker’s Der singende Teufel – Mirko Roschkowski, Anne-Fleur Werner & Tobias Schabel; directed by Julia Burbach; conducted by Dirk Kaftan

The Austrian composer Franz Schreker worked for much of his professional career in the shadow of Richard Strauss, and in a similarly late-Romantic vein in his compositions, especially his operas. However, in his fairly-late Der singende Teufel (The Singing Devil, premiered 1928 in Berlin) he adopted a terser, more pared down musical style more akin to the …

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