Steffens - Two Cells in Sevilla AEC Music Manuel Mengis - Into the

Manuel Mengis - Into the Barn

When Sparling finds a dead woman in a hotel room

it is a fitting tribute to a great ship (and singer) of the Medway

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and both only found their way into the official canon of their composers posthumously

Steffens - Two Cells in Sevilla AEC Music Manuel Mengis - Into theIn many ways, Walter Steffens' Two Cells in Sevilla is a work of polar opposites. Quasi tonal but modern, traditional but minimalist, the German composer has created an opera uniting two historical protagonists as multi faceted as the music itself. The libretto, written by Steffens' son Marec Bla Steffens, fancifully merges the lives of Brother Gabriel Tllez, best known under his pen name Tirso de Molina as the inventor of the fictional womanizer Don