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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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