Various - Hans Gal: Das Lied Der Nacht

fter 1933 nobody had the opportunity to hear this opera. Then the Osnabr�ck Music Theater rediscovered Das Lied der Nacht by Hans G�l and performed it in 2017. This late-romantic opera to a text by Karl Michael von Levetzow premiered in 1926, but since its composer was of Jewish origin, the Nazis prohibited stage productions of it. During his later years Hans G�l was doubly forgotten: as one of the many Jewish artists who were forced into exile by the Fascists and as a conservative very-latest romanticist pursuing paths laid out by Brahms and Richard Strauss. He himself described Das Lied der Nacht as a dramatic ballad symbolically representing the emotional world of a Sicilian hereditary princess destined for sovereignty. The text set in twelfth-century Palermo evokes a magical, romantic world in which Antiquity and Byzantine and Moorish elements combine to form a synthesis of rare fascination and a lyrical blend of European and Oriental culture.