Gluck das mir verblieb
Opera details:
Opera title: | Die Tote Stadt |
Composer: | Erich Korngold |
Language: | German |
Synopsis: | Die Tote Stadt Synopsis |
Libretto: | Die Tote Stadt Libretto |
Translation(s): | Not entered yet. |
Duet details:
Type: | duet |
Role(s): | Marietta / Paul |
Voice(s): | Soprano / Tenor |
Act: | 1 |
| Previous scene: | O Tanz O Rausch! |
| Next scene: | Du weisst dass ich in Brügge blieb |
Korngold: Die tote Stadt: “Glück das mir verblieb†by Lotte Lehmann and Richard Tauber 1924
Singer(s): Lotte Lehmann Richard TauberKorngold: Die tote Stadt: “Glück das mir verblieb†by Lotte Lehmann and Richard Tauber 1924
Duett Mariette und Paul
For a late acoustic recording this is very well done. I only wish they had recorded it a year or two later electrically to get a more balanced sound between the singers and orchestra. There is some hiss and pops still in this transfer, but the beauty of this masterpiece of a duet by Korngold made me want to transfer it. I think this is one of the most beautiful melodies of all 20th century operas. It just melts the listener as the lush orchestration and voices sweep through the music. Today it is most often heard as a concert piece as a soprano solo, but the duet is how it was intended to be performed.
Korngold deserves much more praise for his operas than he gets today. The Nazis banned his music and he became better known for his American film scores than for his superb operas from the 1920s. Had he been able to stay in Austria one can only imagine what he would have continued to produce.
We are lucky to have this wonderful recording by two amazing artists.
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Watch videos with other singers performing Gluck das mir verblieb:
1 - Julia Kleiter
5 - Jonas Kaufmann
1 - Maria Jeritza
1 - Renée Fleming
1 - Renée Fleming
5 - Jonas Kaufmann
1 - Camilla Nylund
5 - Klaus Florian Vogt
2 - Julia Migenes
5 - René Kollo
1 - Karan Armstrong
5 - James King
1 - Erika Köth
5 - Rudolf Schock
1 - Karan Armstrong
5 - Siegfried Jerusalem
1 - Lotte Lehmann
5 - Richard Tauber
1 - Lotte Lehmann
1 - Marni Nixon
2 - Hedwig Fassbender
5 - Klaus Florian Vogt
5 - Anton Dermota
6 - Alfred Poell
1 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
1 - Angela Denoke
1 - Kiri Te Kanawa
1 - Valentina Naforniță
1 - Barbara Hendricks
1 - Leyla Gencer
1 - Cheryl Barker
5 - Joseph Schmidt
1 - Vera Schwarz
1 - Pilar Lorengar
1 - Eileen Farrell
2 - Anne Sofie von Otter
2 - Tamar Iveri
1 - Leontyne Price
1 - Elizabeth Connell
1 - Beverly Sills
5 - Andreas Schager
1 - Christine Brewer
Other videos of the same singers performing Gluck das mir verblieb:
1 - Julia Kleiter
5 - Jonas Kaufmann
1 - Erika Köth
5 - Rudolf Schock
1 - Julia Kleiter
5 - Jonas Kaufmann
5 - Klaus Florian Vogt
1 - Lotte Lehmann
5 - Richard Tauber
1 - Lotte Lehmann
5 - Richard Tauber
1 - Lotte Lehmann
5 - Richard Tauber
5 - Anton Dermota
1 - Renée Fleming
5 - Anton Dermota
1 - Renée Fleming
1 - Barbara Hendricks
1 - Renée Fleming
1 - Kiri Te Kanawa
1 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
1 - Renée Fleming
1 - Kiri Te Kanawa
1 - Valentina Naforniță
1 - Renée Fleming
1 - Erika Köth
2 - Anne Sofie von Otter
1 - Eileen Farrell
5 - Klaus Florian Vogt
1 - Lotte Lehmann
5 - Rudolf Schock
1 - Leontyne Price
5 - Joseph Schmidt
Libretto/Lyrics/Text/Testo:
MARIETTANun, hören Sie.
(singt)
Gluck, das mir verblieb,
Rück zu mir, mein treues Lieb.
Abend sinkt im Haag
Bist mir Licht und Tag.
Bange pochet Herz an Herz.
Hoffnung schwingt sich himmelwärts.
PAUL
(wie verloren)
Wie wahr, ein traurig Lied.
MARIETTA
Das Lied vom treuen Lieb,
Das sterben muß.
(wird aufmerksam)
Was haben Sie?
PAUL
Ich kenne das Lied.
Ich hört es oft in jungen,
In Schöneren Tagen...
Es hat noch eine Strophe,
Weiß ich sie noch?
(er setzt mechanisch fort. Sie spielt die Laute und fällt
ein. Die Strahlen der untergehenden Sonne überfluten
beide.)
Naht auch Sorge trüb,
Rück zu mir, mein treues Lieb.
Neig dein blaß Gesicht,
Sterben trennt uns nicht.
Mußt du einmal von mir gehn,
Glaub, es gibt ein Auferstehn.
(läßt erschüttert das Haupt auf die Brust sinken.
Marietta blickt ihn erst befremdet, dann spöttisch
an. Pause.)
English Libretto or Translation:
MARIETTAWell, listen.
(Sings)
Gluck, that remained to me,
Back to me, my faithful love.
Evening falls in the Hague
I am light and day.
Bange pushes heart to heart.
Hope is swinging heavenwards.
PAUL
(as lost)
How true, a sad song.
MARIETTA
The song of the faithful love,
That must die.
(becomes attentive)
What do you have?
PAUL
I know this song.
I often hear it in boys,
In Nicer days ...
It still has a stanza,
Do I still remember her?
(He continues mechanically.) She plays the lute and falls
on. The rays of the setting sun are flooding
both.)
Seam also worry cloudy,
Back to me, my faithful love.
Tilt your pale face,
Dying does not separate us.
Do you ever have to go from me,
Believe, there is a resurgence.
(lets his head sink to his chest in shock.
Marietta looks at him strangely, then mockingly
on. Pause.)
Sheetmusic in our database with this aria
External links for Gluck das mir verblieb
| Sheetmusic for duet |  Sheetmusicplus.com |
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