Happy birthday, Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957). You unleashed my inner pirate and helped shepherd me into the wonderful world of orchestral music. Little did I realize at the time I was dueling my friends with my mother’s curtain rods that you wrote marvelous operas, too.
Korngold conducts “The Adventures of Robin Hood”:
The Sea Hawk:
Renée Fleming sings from “Das Wunder der Heliane”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2x5NgtGSx4
His greatest operatic hit, Marietta’s Lied from “Die tote Stadt,” sung by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoGQd1dsAlw
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