Opera Cheat Sheet | Houston Public Media

In this week’s Opera Cheat Sheet, Classical 91.7’s program director St.John Flynn and opera expert Eric Skelly discuss Franz Schreker’s 1918 The Stigmatized (in German Die Gezeichneten), a work suppressed by the Nazis as "degenerate."  Set in sixteenth-century Genoa, it’s the sad story of the hunchback Alviano Salvago who, having renounced the love of women, turns the island he owns into a haven of beauty only to see it defiled by the decadence of his fellow... Read More