Kurt Weill's opera Der Silbersee: ein Wintermarchen (1932): An example of 'Der Neue Oper'

ABSTRACT This research report examines the opera Der Silbersee: Ein Wintermärchen (The Silver Lake: a Winter’s Tale), 1932, by Kurt Weill and Georg Kaiser, as an example of what Weill defined as ‘new opera’, in his essay ‘Der Neue Oper’.1 It will discuss reasons for the work’s rarity in its rela...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fowles, Catherine Elizabeth
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: 2008
Subjects:
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10539/4844