
German orchestra to premiere forgotten opera by Franz Liszt
The Hungarian-German composer’s unfinished opera Sardanapalo has been in the archive for more than a century – untouched and almost forgotten. This weekend, it will be brought to life in Weimar.”It is 170 years old but sounds very fresh,” is how David Trippett, associate professor at Cambridge University’s Faculty of Music, described Franz Liszt’s unfinished …