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The title character, General Harras, is modeled on Ernst Udet. The play follows his wartime struggle to work within the Nazi regime while openly opposing the Nazi Party, using a serious scenario with a comic and satirical tone.
A two-act opera by Giselher and Lore Klebe based on Carl Zuckmayer’s novella, set in Mainz in 1913.
During the inflation crisis, the struggling Knie tightrope troupe travels from town to town. Katharina dreams of leaving circus life and accepts work on farmer Rothacker's estate, but when she returns to tell her father she will marry him, Karl Knie mistakes her visit for a return to the troupe and dies before learning the truth. Katharina then breaks her engagement and takes charge of the family circus.
An opera buffa with simultaneous ballet by Boris Blacher, based on the real-life Captain of Köpenick story and Carl Zuckmayer’s play. Heinz von Cramer wrote the libretto. No plot description is available in the reviewed text.
The play portrays the adventures of the eighteenth-century German criminal Schinderhannes and his gang in the Hunsrück; it is based on his life but is not wholly historically accurate.
In the militarized German Empire, an unemployed former shoemaker, Wilhelm Voigt, obtains a captain’s uniform and uses its authority to recruit soldiers and seize Köpenick’s town hall and treasury while trying to secure a passport.
The title character, General Harras, is modeled on Ernst Udet. The play follows his wartime struggle to work within the Nazi regime while openly opposing the Nazi Party, using a serious scenario with a comic and satirical tone.
A two-act opera by Giselher and Lore Klebe based on Carl Zuckmayer’s novella, set in Mainz in 1913.
During the inflation crisis, the struggling Knie tightrope troupe travels from town to town. Katharina dreams of leaving circus life and accepts work on farmer Rothacker's estate, but when she returns to tell her father she will marry him, Karl Knie mistakes her visit for a return to the troupe and dies before learning the truth. Katharina then breaks her engagement and takes charge of the family circus.
An opera buffa with simultaneous ballet by Boris Blacher, based on the real-life Captain of Köpenick story and Carl Zuckmayer’s play. Heinz von Cramer wrote the libretto. No plot description is available in the reviewed text.
The play portrays the adventures of the eighteenth-century German criminal Schinderhannes and his gang in the Hunsrück; it is based on his life but is not wholly historically accurate.
In the militarized German Empire, an unemployed former shoemaker, Wilhelm Voigt, obtains a captain’s uniform and uses its authority to recruit soldiers and seize Köpenick’s town hall and treasury while trying to secure a passport.