Die tote Stadt | |
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Opera by Erich Wolfgang Korngold | |
![]() Scene at the Graz Opera in 2015 | |
Librettist | Paul Schott |
Language | German |
Based on | Bruges-la-Morte by Georges Rodenbach |
Premiere | 4 December 1920 |
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.