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Karl V

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A stage work with music, In two acts, by Ernst Krenek
Krenek completed his most important opera in Germany in 1933. By the time it was performed in Prague in 1938, he was a refugee from Nazism, living in America, his present home.
Karl V has the distinction of being the first full-length 12-tone opera. The Emperor is dying and, in a series of flash-backs into his past, analysing the reasons for his failure to establish a united world empire.
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS OF AUSTRIAN RADIO conducted byGERDALBRECHT (An EBU co-promotion given as part of this year's Salzburg Festival) Act 1

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Ernst Krenek
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Karl V
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