Orpheus und Eurydike
play by Kokoschka
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discussed in biography
- In Oskar Kokoschka: Maturity of Oskar Kokoschka
In Orpheus und Eurydike (1918) he expressed the terror he had experienced after being wounded. This play was adapted as an opera in 1926 by the German composer Ernst Krenek. The war and the takeover of the Russian Revolution by the Bolshevik regime disillusioned Kokoschka, as…
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