Die tote Stadt

Die tote Stadt
Opera by Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Scene at the Graz Opera in 2015
LibrettistPaul Schott
LanguageGerman
Based onBruges-la-Morte by Georges Rodenbach
Premiere
4 December 1920 (1920-12-04)

Die tote Stadt (German for 'The Dead City'), Op. 12, is an opera in three acts by Erich Wolfgang Korngold set to a libretto by Paul Schott, a collective pseudonym for the composer and his father, Julius Korngold. It is based on the 1892 novel Bruges-la-Morte by Georges Rodenbach.