Mannes School of Music is planning a US premiere of Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s The Silent Serenade.
Written in the late 1940s when Korngold was at the peak of his Hollywood success, it failed to make the cut on the Great White Way.
Premieres at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater on March 13, 2026.
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