We had so much fun watching Erich Wolfgang Korngold's (1897-1957) masterpiece, we are kinda sad he did not make it to the 1960s: if his psychedelic opera, die tote Stadt, is any hint, he would have written the ultimate LSD trip arias. For lack of psychotropics, die tote Stadt has to make do with funky wacky dreams. Quite naturally in fact, it's a Viennese guy writing music in Freud's Vienna, and Sigmund had just put out his interpretation of dreams twenty years before. more ›