The Nazis took umbrage at the sex and politics of The Miracle of Heliane, a three-way scorcher set in an imaginary totalitarian state. This fourth and grandest opera of the former wunderkind Erich Wolfgang Korngold has never before been staged in the United States, where he reigned as a cofounder of rhapsodic Hollywood soundtracks, from Captain Blood and Robin Hood to The Sea Hawk and beyond. —M.G.