Die Frau im Dialog

Impressionistic, jazzy, expressionistic, and composed by a Jewish Communist in l932, Flammen didn't stand a chance with the Nazis. But it's a marvelous work—inventive, entertaining, possibly unique. The libretto is only 38 pages long; more than a third of the music is orchestral. Don Juan is at the opera's center, but here he is condemned to passion and life—he can find no eternal rest. He travels from time to time and place to place; his conquests give him no joy despite the fact that he wreaks havoc wherever he goes. (…) John Mauceri leads a tight, riveting performance, and Decca allows us to hear this hallucinatory score in all its glory.

— Robert Levine, ClassicsToday.com