Peter Lundin wrote: >Haveth any of You any more or less wellgrounded oppinion(s) on Victor >Ullmanns Terezienstadt opera "Der Kaiser von Atlantis" - it is to be given >by Opera students localy.. Thus has cought my eye - There is/was a CD on >Decca, any thoughts on that? In 1991, I conducted one of the first US performances of "Kaiser.." [probably in another performing edition] here in Washington DC, --a deeply moving experience. Given the circumstances of the work's composition I couldn't offer any "objective" criticism, but more cold-blooded colleagues who attended assure me that the music was-if eclectic-quite wonderful. My impression is that perhaps Ullmann was the most gifted of the cohort of Czech composers who perished at the hands of the Nazis... Joel Lazar Bethesda MD