List of works for the stage by Weill
This is a complete list of the stage works of the German, and later American, composer Kurt Weill (1900–1950).
Title | Genre | Subdivisions | Libretto | Première date | Place, theatre |
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Zriny | opera | Körnerafter a tragedy by Theodor Körner | 1916composed 1916, but lost | ||
Ninon von Lenclos | opera | Hardtbased on a drama by Ernst Hardt | 1920composed 1920, but lost | ||
Zaubernacht | ballet with song | 1 act | BoritschWladimir Boritsch | 1922-11-1818 November 1922 | Berlin, Theater am Kurfürstendamm |
ProtagonistDer Protagonist | opera | 1 act | KaiserGeorg Kaiser | 1926-03-2727 March 1926 | Dresden, Staatsoper |
Royal Palace | opera | 1 act | GollYvan Goll | 1927-03-022 March 1927 | Berlin, Krolloper |
Na und? | Felix Joachimson | 1927-06-99composed 1926–1927, but unperformed and lost | |||
Mahagonny-Songspiel | Songspiel | 3 acts | BrechtBertolt Brecht | 1927-07-1717 July 1927 | Baden-Baden, Kurhaus |
ZarDer Zar lässt sich photographieren | opera buffa | 1 act | KaiserGeorg Kaiser | 1928-02-1818 February 1928 | Leipzig, Neues Theater |
DreigroschenoperDie Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera) | play with music | 8.1prologue and 8 scenes | BrechtBertolt Brecht, after The Beggar's Opera by John Gay | 1928-08-3131 August 1928 | Berlin, Theater am Schiffbauerdamm |
Happy End | comedy with music | 3 acts | HauptmannElisabeth Hauptmann and Bertolt Brecht | 1929-09-022 September 1929 | Berlin, Theater am Schiffbauerdamm |
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny | opera | 3 acts | BrechtBertolt Brecht | 1930-03-099 March 1930 | Leipzig, Neues Theater |
JasagerDer Jasager | Schuloper | 2 acts | BrechtBertolt Brecht, after Elisabeth Hauptmann's translation from Arthur Waley's English version of the Japanese No drama Taniko | 1930-06-2323 June 1930 | Berlin |
BürgschaftDie Bürgschaft | opera | 3.1prologue and 3 acts | NeherCaspar Neher, after Johann Gottfried Herder's parable Der afrikanische Rechtspruch | 1932-03-1010 March 1932 | Berlin, Städtische Oper |
SiebenDie sieben Todsünden | ballet chanté | 8 parts | BrechtBertolt Brecht | 1933-06-077 June 1933 | Paris, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées |
SilberseeDer Silbersee | play with music | 3 acts | KaiserGeorg Kaiser | 1933-02-1818 February 1933 | Leipzig, Altes Theater & Stadttheater Magdeburg & Theater Erfurt |
Marie Galante | play with music | 2 acts | DevalJacques Deval | 1934-12-2222 December 1934 | Paris, Théâtre de Paris |
KuhhandelDer Kuhhandel | operetta | 2 acts | VamberyRobert Vambery | 1990-03-22composed 1934 but not performed until: 22 March 1990 | Düsseldorf (in concert) |
Kingdom for a CowA Kingdom for a Cow (revision of Der Kuhhandel) | musical play | 3 acts | ArkellReginald Arkell and D Carter | 1935-06-28 28 June 1935 | London, Savoy Theatre |
WegDer Weg der Verheissung | biblical drama | 4 acts | WerfelFranz Werfel | 1935composed 1934-1935, but unperformed until: 13 June 1999 | Chemnitz, Theater Chemnitz |
Johnny Johnson | musical play | 3 acts | GreenPaul Green | 1936-11-1919 November 1936 | New York, 44th Street Theatre |
Eternal RoadThe Eternal Road (revision of Der Weg der Verheissung) | biblical drama | 4 acts | WerfelFranz Werfel | 1937-01-077 January 1937 | New York City, Manhattan Opera House |
Knickerbocker Holiday | musical comedy | 2 acts | AndersonMaxwell Anderson | 1938-09-2626 September 1938 | Hartford, Connecticut |
Davy Crockett | musical play | 2 acts | HaysH R Hays | 1938composed 1938, but unfinished | |
Railroads on Parade (A Fantasy on Rail Transport) | circus opera | HungerfordEdward Hungerford | 1939-04-3030 April 1939 | New York World's Fair | |
Ulysses Africanus | musical play | 2 acts | AndersonMaxwell Anderson | 1939-99composed 1939, but unfinished | material later used in Lost in the Stars |
Lady in the Dark | musical play | 2 acts | HartMoss Hart and Ira Gershwin | 1941-01-2323 January 1941 | New York, Alvin Theatre |
One Touch of Venus | musical comedy | 2 acts | NashOgden Nash | 1943-10-077 October 1943 | New York, Imperial Theatre |
Firebrand of FlorenceThe Firebrand of Florence | operetta | 2 acts | GershwinIra Gershwin | 1944-03-2222 March 1944 | New York, Alvin Theatre |
Street Scene | American opera | 2 acts | RiceElmer Rice and Langston Hughes | 1947-01-099 January 1947 | New York, Adelphi Theatre |
Down in the Valley | folk opera | 1 act | SundgaardArnold Sundgaard | 1948-07-1515 July 1948 | Bloomington, Indiana University |
Love Life | vaudeville | 2 parts | LernerAlan Jay Lerner | 1948-10-077 October 1948 | New York, 46th Street Theatre |
Lost in the Stars | musical tragedy | 2 acts | AndersonMaxwell Anderson | 1949-10-3030 October 1949 | New York, Music Box Theatre |
Huckleberry Finn | musical | 2 acts | AndersonMaxwell Anderson after Mark Twain | 1950composed 1950, but unfinished |
References
- Hinton, Stephen (1992), 'Weill, Kurt' in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London) ISBN 0-333-73432-7
- Kurt Weill Foundation: page about Der Weg der Verheißung
- The playbill for the 1939 NY Worlds Fair show "Railroads on Parade"
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