Humperdinck: Königskinder - review

Banse/Vogt/Gerhaher/Rundfunkchor Berlin/Deutsches SO/Metzmacher(Crystal, three CDs)When it was premiered at the Met in New York in 1910, less than three weeks after the first performance of Puccini's La Fanciulla del West in the same opera house, Königskinder was hailed as the most important new opera since Parsifal. But in the century since, the most enduring of Humperdinck's stage works has proved to be Hänsel und Gretel, and outside German-speaking countries at least, Königskinder is rarel...

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