Financial Times / Arts / July 8, 2008
   OPERA
   "Die Soldaten"
   Lincoln Center Festival, New York
   
   MARTIN BERNHEIMER

   It is big. Very, very big.

   Bernd Alois Zimmermann began to write Die Soldaten in 1957.
   The first version turned out to be so complex, so sprawling,
   so forbidding and foreboding in idiom and scope that no
   company would produce it. In 1965 Cologne introduced a
   somewhat simplified revision. The opera, still preposterously
   gargantuan, was hailed as the most significant advance in
   deepest, darkest expressionism since Berg's Wozzeck and
   Lulu. The language was atonal, the technique serial, the
   impact staggering.

   http://tinyurl.com/68q3ov

Janos Gereben
www.sfcv.org
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