Angel: Grete Minde

This recording of Eugen Engel's opera "Grete Minde" documents an extraordinary event: Almost 90 years after its completion and almost 80 years after the death of its creator, the only opera by the previously unknown composer was premiered at the Theater Magdeburg on February 13, 2022. This discovery was preceded by years of work – the creation of the musical material from the preserved handwritten score and biographical research into Eugen Engel himself. The fact that there are only a few biographical records of him is partly due to the fact that he did not make music his main profession. More significantly, however, is the persecution and murder of almost his entire family during the Holocaust.