The University of North Carolina School of the Arts will present Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing with the newly released edition of Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s complete score, which was banned by the Nazis in 1933. The six performances, from March 29 to April 7 at the Agnes de Mille Theatre on UNCSA’s Winston-Salem campus, are billed as the first time the complete score has been performed with the Shakespeare play in the U.S. UNCSA Chancellor John Mauceri, who contributed to the new score edition, will conduct a chamber orchestra of high school, college, and graduate UNCSA musicians. “The UNCSA production will afford audiences the rare opportunity to experience a type of theater which was an entire genre from the 18th century to the first part of the 20th and is now, for all practicality, extinct,” Mauceri said. Korngold’s granddaughter, Kathrin Korngold Hubbard, is expected to attend the opening performance with her husband, John Hubbard, a professional cellist who is an alumnus of UNSA’s School of Music. The production will be filmed for a future television broadcast on UNC-TV.
Posted March 22, 2012
