Ullmann - Der Kaiser von Atlantis
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Label: BR Klassik
Cat No: 900339
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 6th May 2022
Contents
Artists
Juliana Zara (soprano)Christel Loetzsch (mezzo-soprano)
Johannes Chum (tenor)
Adrian Erod (baritone)
Lars Woldt (bass)
Tareq Nazmi (bass)
Munchner Rundfunkorchester
Conductor
Patrick HahnWorks
Der Kaiser von AtlantisArtists
Juliana Zara (soprano)Christel Loetzsch (mezzo-soprano)
Johannes Chum (tenor)
Adrian Erod (baritone)
Lars Woldt (bass)
Tareq Nazmi (bass)
Munchner Rundfunkorchester
Conductor
Patrick HahnAbout
Viktor Ullmann, born in 1898 in Teschen, Silesia, studied with Arnold Schoenberg and Alois Hába in Vienna. He worked first as a bandmaster and then as a bookseller, and settled in Prague as a freelance artist in 1933. Because he came from a Jewish family, he was deported to the Theresienstadt camp by the Nazis in 1942. In October 1944 he was murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau, together with composers Pavel Haas and Hans Krása, who were almost the same age.
Since the Nazis allowed a lively cultural life in their "showcase camp" of Theresienstadt, Ullmann was also able to be musically active. The intellectual and cultural heritage of that time is reflected in his music – also, and especially, in the "one-act play" that he wrote there entitled Der Kaiser von Atlantis oder Die Tod-Verweigerung (The Emperor of Atlantis or the Disobedience of Death), based on the libretto by his fellow prisoner Peter Kien. The play begins with a concept that is as absurd as it is comforting: Death goes on strike. He is weary of his existence, and refuses to serve. In many ways, this reflects the reality of life for those deported to Theresienstadt.
The opera, set in the legendary Atlantis, is a parable of the inhuman system of the National Socialists. The message of the work is just as relevant today. The Munich audience was every bit as impressed as the journalists. This haunting work, created by a great composer with the few resources available to him in Theresienstadt, is highly effective – even more so as a live recording on CD.
Cast:
- The Girl with Bobbed Hair, a Soldier: Juliana Zara (soprano)
- The Drummer: Christel Loetzsch (mezzo-soprano)
- Harlequin; A Soldier: Johannes Chum (tenor)
- Emperor Overall: Adrian Eröd (baritone)
- The Loudspeaker: Lars Woldt (bass)
- Death: Tareq Nazmi (bass)
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