Zemlinsky: The Mermaid

Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast by Joshua Weilerstein

Feb 5, 202601:01:32Music

The story of Alexander von Zemlinsky's The Mermaid begins with a passionate love affair and ends in heartbreak of the most unabashedly big-R Romantic kind. In 1900, the young, fabulously talented, and famously beautiful...

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