Ronald reagan considered “Kings Row” (1942) his best work as an actor. Beyond its presidential cast, the small-town melodrama has another claim to fame. Moviegoers may find its lavish soundtrack ...

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The University of Chicago will celebrate Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s music over the course of a 10-day festival—one that will examine how his life and work show a transformational change from composing ...

In high school, I spent long hours in the art room, painting in a pseudo-Turneresque manner and listening to music. A former teacher had installed a record-player and assembled a collection of ...

Few violin concertos soar from the first bar as Erich Korngold’s does, especially as in Ray Chen's high-wire account at the ...

On one level the only sensible way to evaluate a film score would be to look at it as an organic part of the film for which it was written. A successful film score would be one that worked together ...

Korngold’s “Die Tote Stadt” was a hit in 1920. Then it all but disappeared, only to regain its popularity in the 21st century. By Joshua Barone MUNICH — On a recent evening at the Bavarian State Opera ...

“That sounds like film music” is a put-down that deserves to be retired. The usual intention is to dismiss a work as splashy kitsch. Over the past century, though, enough first-rate music has been ...

Numi Opera, which is devoted to mounting neglected early 20th century operas by politically persecuted composers, is the new kid in town. Erich Wolfgang Korngold, the father of the symphonic film ...

Longhborough Festival Opera’s new staging of this 1920 opera-noir deserves to have a long future life Telegraph Opera Critic, Nicholas Kenyon, is an author and academic, and former Controller of Radio ...