Die tote Stadt (German for The Dead City) is an opera in three acts by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. The libretto is by a fictitious Paul Schott (actually a pseudonym for the true librettists, the composer and the composer’s father Julius Korngold), and is based on Bruges-la-Morte, a short novel by Georges Rodenbach.
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