Who, you might be forgiven for asking, was Eugen Engel (1875-1943)? As Orfeo’s excellent booklet explains, he was a Berlin-based businessman trading ‘ladies’ coat fabrics and ready-to-wear fabrics’.

Grete Minde was a side project for Eugen Engel, a textile tradesman by day, whose daughter escaped to US An opera score retrieved from a San Francisco basement has had its world premiere in a German ...