1949, ORIGINAL, Blätter des STADTTHEATERS ZÜRICH, Opera, Program, Booklet, First Performance of Down in the Valley, KURT WEILL, Ira Malaniuk

Description

Season 1948/1949

BLÄTTER DES STADTTHEATERS ZÜRICH

Program

 

DOWN IN THE VALLEY

Music: Kurt Weill (First Performance)

Text: Arnold Sundgaard

 

DAS TELEPHON

by Gian Carlo Menotti

Music Direction: Eduard Hartogs

 

Program Booklet, Theatre, Opera, Ballet, Musical, Theatre
original Heft, 20 Seiten,

Staging: Werner Gallusser

also Text about Verdi aus “Kritische Zeitbilder” by Paul Bekker

Language: German

Dimension: 22,5cm x 15cm (6inch x 9 inch)

 

The Zurich Opera House is located in the center of the city of Zurich at Sechseläutenplatz. The building was called   Stadttheater until 1964 and has since been called the Opera House. It opened on October 1, 1891 and can accommodate 1100 people. The Zurich Opera House has been led by artistic director Andreas Homoki since 2012, succeeding Alexander Pereira

Down in the Valley is a one-act folk opera in eight scenes by Kurt Weill with a libretto by Arnold Sundgaard. The work we know today is the revised and extended version of an unpublished radio opera from 1945, in which five American folk songs are arranged. The eponymous ballad Down in the Valley is also known as Birmingham Jail.