Paul Dessau

...and conductor James Levine. Adam appeared in a number of world premieres during his career. He notably created the title roles in Paul Dessau's Einstein (1974, Berlin) and Friedrich Cerha's Baal (1981, Salzburg) and the role of...

In this article: Theo Adam, Der Ring des Nibelungen, Fidelio, Hans Sachs, Luciano Berio, Wozzeck, Un re in ascolto, Parsifal, and 1984

...main text author of the musical comedy Happy End '' (1929). She was in exile in the United States from 1934 to 1949; she married Paul Dessau in 1943. After Brecht's death in 1956, she published works of his at the Suhrkamp Verlag, a German...

In this article: Elisabeth Hauptmann, Berlin Ensemble, Happy End, The Beggar's Opera, Mahagonny Songspiel, Suhrkamp Verlag, John Gay, Bertolt Brecht, and Kurt Weill

...and editor John Willett. Since then her name has been linked particularly with the German cabaret songs of Weill, Eisler, and Paul Dessau, a repertoire which Willett guided her to. Her one-woman cabaret A Star is Torn (1979) covering various...

In this article: Robyn Archer, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide University, Kurt Weill, Hanns Eisler, Melbourne, Australia, and Canberra

...the Berliner Ensemble where he made important contacts with other composers and writers, including Heiner Muller. He also studied with Paul Dessau. From 1964 until 1968, he studied music theory at Humboldt University of Berlin. From 1980...

In this article: Berlin, Berliner Philharmoniker, Berliner Ensemble, Akademie der Kunste, University of the Arts, Humboldt University of Berlin, Ingo Metzmacher, and Heiner Muller

Not everything is right. The live music, by Duke Special and his band, is softly beguiling rather than bracingly challenging like Paul Dessau's original. The acting periodically descends into un-Brechtian ranting (though not from Stephen...

In this article: Fiona Shaw, Mother Courage and Her Children, Deborah Warner, Mother Courage, God, Thirty Years' War, Waiting for Godot, Stephen Kennedy, and Gore Vidal

...of books, and was possessed of a fine culinary experience. Though first conceived as an opera, the text was set to music by Paul Dessau. Communist authorities banned it, causing Brecht to revise scenes and changing the title to The...

In this article: The Trial of Lucullus, Bertolt Brecht, and Europe

...Puntila was played initially by Leonard Steckel (as with the Zurich production), then by the comedian Curt Bois. The composer Paul Dessau wrote a musical setting for the songs for this production, while Casper Neher designed the sets.

In this article: Mr Puntila and his Man Matti, Hella Wuolijoki, Scandinavia, Berliner Ensemble, and Buick

...adaptation of Shakespeare's ''Coriolanus '' at the Berliner Ensemble in 1964. In 1954, Berghaus married the composer Paul Dessau, whose works for the theater she directed. Her association with the Berliner Ensemble culminated with her...

In this article: Berliner Ensemble, Berlin, Dresden, Expressionist dance, Cancer, Wozzeck, Der Rosenkavalier, and Lulu

...to direct plays by Brecht that had not yet been staged. The stage designers Caspar Neher and Karl von Appen, the composers Paul Dessau and Hanns Eisler as well as the dramaturge Elisabeth Hauptmann were among Brecht's closest...

In this article: Berliner Ensemble, Heiner Muller, Helene Weigel, Hanns Eisler, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Alexander Frey, and Wolfgang Langhoff

...offers a concert called "Music of the Other Germany," featuring works by composers of the former German Democratic Republic, including Paul Dessau, Hanns Eisler, Siegfried Matthus, Rudolf Wagner-Regeny and Udo Zimmermann. Four of the six works...

In this article: Allan Kozinn, Carnegie Hall, Leon Kirchner, Rudolf Wagner-Regeny, Lincoln Center, and Lucia di Lammermoor