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The Arts Intel Report

Das klagende Lied, by Gustav Mahler

Dec 4–7, 2019
Bennelong Point, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia

In this monumental early fresco by the composer of the “Resurrection” Symphony and Das Lied von der Erde, a youth who is the flower of chivalry vies with his vicious brother for the hand of a haughty queen who may not be worth having. The accomplished Aussie Simone Young, much in demand in operatic and symphonic capitals abroad, comes home for a rare encounter with a curiosity that would not leave its creator alone; he kept tinkering with it, in large ways and small, for some 20 years. —M.G.