... McClatchy sweepingly presents Hofmannsthal as a great humanist in dark times. He even declares – without any supporting exposition – that Der Rosenkavalier (for which Hofmannsthal wrote the libretto) has, thanks to its “similarity to Mozart’s Nozze di Figaro and Wagner’s Meistersinger”, a “rare place among the most humane works of art ever conceived”.
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Stressed out in the womb ...
... The precious Hugo von Hofmannsthal.Actually, this seems to me a perfectly unexceptional view.
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I agree with you.
ReplyDeleteDer Rosenkavalier is one of the few operas that I can always listen to, with no hesitation. I never tire of it. The waltzes alone are among the best ever written.