Soprano Celine Byrne heads for the Dead City
Byrne to sing lead role of Marietta in Erich Korngold’s Die Tote Stadt
How thrilling it is for her many fans to hear that Celine Byrne will be singing the lead role of Marietta in Erich Korngold’s Die Tote Stadt (The Dead City) in Kassel, Germany. It is a weekly engagement during April and May in the regional capital’s Staatstheater.
Puccini once described the opera as “among the most beautiful and the strongest hope of new German music”. It never quite realised that hope, but this ...
