This is the latest opera I saw at La Scala. Although the music was not difficult to understand on a very superficial level, I had a good deal of trouble tying to unravel the meaning of the story. Based on a short novel written in 1892, Korngold has transformed it into a foray into symbolist decadentism. Death cult, doubling and dream sequences make it extremely difficult to understand; clearly I should have read up before going.
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