Royal Palace (opera)

Royal Palace is a 1925 one-act German-language ballet opera with a female choir in 13 scenes by Kurt Weil to a libretto by Yvan Goll. The premiere was on 2 March 1927 at the Berlin State Opera under the artistic direction of Erich Kleiber.^[1]

The orchestral score and thus the original instrumentation was lost during the Nazi era and was reconstructed in 1971 by Noam Sheriff and Gunther Schuller, as a dance drama from a piano reduction with notes on the orchestration.^[2]

Cast

Dejanira (dramatic soprano)
The Husband (bass)
Yesterday's Lover (baritone)
Tomorrow's Lover (tenor)
The Young Fisherman (tenor)
The Old Fisherman (bass)
Ladies Choir (backstage)

References

^ Jazz & the Germans, Michael J. Budds, 2002, p. 103: "Weill's surrealist collaborations with Ivan Goll – notably Royal Palace – portray the need for the human spirit to ... Although Royal Palace is now considered by some scholars to be a key work in the stage music career of Kurt Weill ..."
^ Weill's Musical Theater: Stages of Reform, Stephen Hinton, 2012, p. 85: "In 2000, two productions occurred within weeks of each other, both using the orchestrated version prepared for a performance in 1971 by Gunther Schuller and Noam Sheriff, one fully staged, the other a concert performance"

External links

"Royal Palace, op. 17", Kurt Weill Foundation

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[1] Jazz & the Germans, Michael J. Budds, 2002, p. 103: "Weill's surrealist collaborations with Ivan Goll – notably Royal Palace – portray the need for the human spirit to ... Although Royal Palace is now considered by some scholars to be a key work in the stage music career of Kurt Weill ..."

[2] Weill's Musical Theater: Stages of Reform, Stephen Hinton, 2012, p. 85: "In 2000, two productions occurred within weeks of each other, both using the orchestrated version prepared for a performance in 1971 by Gunther Schuller and Noam Sheriff, one fully staged, the other a concert performance"

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Works for the stage	Der Protagonist (1926) Royal Palace (1927) Mahagonny-Songspiel (1927) Der Zar lässt sich photographieren (1928) The Threepenny Opera (1928) Happy End (1929) Der Lindberghflug/The Flight Across the Ocean (1929) Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (1930) Der Jasager (1930) Die Bürgschaft (1932) Der Silbersee (1933) The Seven Deadly Sins (1933) Der Kuhhandel (1935) Johnny Johnson (1936) The Eternal Road (1937) Knickerbocker Holiday (1938) Lady in the Dark (1940) We Will Never Die (1943) One Touch of Venus (1943) The Firebrand of Florence (1945) A Flag Is Born (1945) Street Scene (1946) Down in the Valley (1948) Love Life (1948) Lost in the Stars (1949)
Songs	"Alabama Song" "J'attends un navire" "Mack the Knife" "My Ship" "Pirate Jenny" "The Saga of Jenny" "September Song" "Speak Low" "Tschaikowsky (and Other Russians)" "What Keeps Mankind Alive?"
Film scores	The Threepenny Opera (1931) You and Me (1938) Where Do We Go from Here? (1945) One Touch of Venus (1948)
Tribute albums	André Previn and J. J. Johnson (1962) John Bunch Plays Kurt Weill (1975) Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill (1985) The Young Gods Play Kurt Weill (1991) Let No One Deceive You (1992) September Songs – The Music of Kurt Weill (1994) This Is New (2002)
Others	The Berlin Requiem (1928)
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