The history of twentieth century opera. 1945A.
The year wherein Adolf Hitler retreats in his Führer bunker to control Nazi Germany from there and to hold his last radio speech; Russian troops liberate the largely abandoned concentration camp Auschwitz; beginning of the Conference of Yalta. Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt discuss the situation in Europe after the end of the Second World War; Adolf Hitler gives the command to destruction of all public works and facilities in Germany where the advancing allies could make use of: the so-called Nero command; Doetinchem, Zutphen, Meppel, Ede, Nijkerk and Deventer are liberated by the Canadians, Enschede by the English; In his bunker in Berlin, Adolf Hitler admits to his generals that the War is lost. In doing so, he also outsources all military command; American troops liberate the concentration camp Dachau; Joseph Goebbels commits suicide and Berlin surrenders; weekly magazine Elsevier appears for the first time in October; the Netherlands accepts the Charter of the UN; The Process of Nuremberg begins by the end of November.
In this episode fragments from:
• Henri Sauguet- Les Forains (ballet)
• Igor Stravinsky- The Firebird 1945 edition (ballet suite)
Other opera and operette productions from 1945 are:
• Werner Egk- Circe
• Hilding Rosenberg- The Isle of Bliss (Lycksalighetens ö)
• Emmerich Kálmán- Marinka
• Benjamin Britten- Peter Grimes
• Sergei Prokofiev- Oorlog en vrede (Война и мир, Voyna i mir)
• Ernst Krenek- What Price Confidence?
• Louis Gruenberg- Volpone
• Rutland Boughton- Avalon
• Pablo Sorozábal- La eterna canción
• André Mathieu- Scènes de ballet
• Nicolae Bretan- A Különös Széder-est
• Paul Dessau- Die Reisen des Glücksgotts
• Werner Egk- Circe
