Special envoy to Strasbourg
It will be necessary one day to stop considering Franz Schreker as an interesting curiosity, to make of him what he should never have ceased to be: a pillar of the repertoire.
What he was in the 1920s, when his notoriety surpassed that of Richard Strauss.
What it was no longer when the Nazis declared its music “degenerate”, and did not become again after the war.
In France, Strasbourg has always been at the forefront of this movement, and we can more than ever count on the current director of the Opéra national du Rhin, Alain Perroux: before taking up this post, he had written a book reference on Schreker (Éditions Papillon)!
Here is the French premiere of Le
Chercheur de trésors
, a century and two years after its triumphant premiere in Frankfurt.
At most we knew the recording of Gerd Albrecht (Capriccio), but a CD does not allow us to get an idea of the scenic viability of an opera.
This time, everything comes together, and it's a masterpiece
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