H. Kleber News
Kleber, Henry; b. May 4, 1818, Darmstadt; German organist and composer; came to U.S. in 1832
- United States of America, German Confederation
- composer, pedagogue, organist
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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-08-13 00:41:22
Offenbach and Novello: As Different As Can Be
[…] But after a few seconds the audience notices that the officer is wearing a red armband with a black swastika on it. After this subtle adumbration of 1938, the curtain rises on a garden scene at an inn outside Vienna in 1911. But the memory of the Nazi armband foreshadows serious issues to come. To make this division between “now” and “then” even more explicit, Daigle double-cast the two principal characters, the operetta composer Rudi Kleber and his great love Maria Ziegler, with younger actors to represent them in the years up to the final scene (Nathan Brian and Sarah Best) while an older couple (Ted Christopher and Julie Wright Costa) sometimes moves through the early scenes as invisible viewers, “recalling” something from their past; they also play the full final scene, in 1938. which takes place in front of the scrim and leads to a touching final visual image […]
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