Der Kaiser von Atlantis - Viktor Ullmann - kallistiUC San Diego from go diego go linda the librarian Watch Video
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⏲ Duration: 35 min 89 sec ✓ Published: 17-Jul-2012
Description: Der Kaiser von Atlantis is a miracle and a mystery.Viktor Ullmann composed the workin 1943, while interred in Terezin, and poet Peter Klein wrote the libretto.Wespeculate about the instruments Ullmann had at his disposal and assume that there were singers able to perform a demanding score. We know that an S.S. Officer heard a rehearsal, and called it to a halt. Ullmann and his family were never heard from again; somehow the manuscript of the score survived. nnThe opera is a blatant