Who doesn't know and love the wonderful silent films Easy Street (US, 1917), The Immigrant (US, 1917) or The Adventurer (US, 1917) by Charlie Chaplin? Here, however, you will not hear the original Hollywood music from the 1920s, but the live Chaplin operas by Benedict Mason.
The premiere by the Ensemble Modern took place on April 2, 1989 at the Alte Oper Frankfurt, a few days before Chaplin's 100th birthday. The Chaplin operas are now regarded as a milestone in the history of the re-scoring of silent films and, following their Frankfurt premiere, were heard in Dresden, Cologne, Perm, Baden-Baden, Amsterdam, Essen, Salzburg and Strasbourg.