Viktor Ullmann

Written in a concentration camp in 1943, the libretto takes a firm stand on the political situation in life by using the means of a mystery play. In the tradition of the Zeitoper (opera of the time) o...

Variations, fantaisie et double fugue op. 3b

Nostalgia, humor, mourning, the shoemaker's wisdom and the rabbi's mysticism - Yiddish poetry captures the spirit of the sunken world of Jewish life in the shtetls. These settlements in Eastern Europe...

Ullmann finished his one act opera 'Der zerbrochene Krug' after a play of the same title by Heinrich von Kleist shortly before his internment in the concentration camp of Theresienstadt (Terezin), whe...