Opera
Abrahám
Ball at the Savoy
Alison Kelly, Gerald Frantzen, Ryan Trent Oldham, Cynthia Fortune Gruel, Rose Guccione, Bridget Skaggs, Matt Dyson, Kurt Bender, Shawn Morgenlander, Gillian Hollis, Gretchen Adams; Folks Operetta/ Anthony Barrese
Naxos 8.660503-04 139:15 mins (2 discs)
Since 2006, the Chicago-based Folks Operetta has been reconstructing and producing works from the Viennese and German traditions, recently making a specialty of Jewish composers and librettists who either perished or were forced into exile during the Third Reich.
One example is the Jewish-Hungarian Paul Abrahám (1892-1960), whose successful career was brought to an end when he was forced to leave first Germany, then Austria, then Hungary, surviving only due to his move to
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