From Birmingham
The BIRMINGHAM
STUDIO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA
(Leader, FRANK
CANTELL), conducted by JOSEPH LEWIS
JAMES CHING
(Pianoforte)
BEFORE Schubert left school, he had started to set the libretto, by Kotzebue, of this
3-Act Light Opera, Des Teufels Lustschloss , on a would-be comical subject, bringing in ghostly influences. He finished the work in 1814 (when he was seventeen), and re-wrote it a few months lator. But, like so many of his dozen or more Operas, it remained in obscurity, and was never put on the stage.