''Lanzelot'' is a 1969 opera by
Paul Dessau
Paul Dessau (19 December 189428 June 1979) was a German composer and conductor. He collaborated with Bertolt Brecht and composed incidental music for his plays, and several operas based on them.
Biography
Dessau was born in Hamburg into a m ...
to a
libretto
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by
Heiner Müller
Heiner Müller (; 9 January 1929 – 30 December 1995) was a German (formerly East German) dramatist, poet, writer, essayist and theatre director. His "enigmatic, fragmentary pieces" are a significant contribution to postmodern drama and postd ...
and , based on
Evgeny Schwartz
Evgeny Lvovich Schwartz (, , Kazan, Russian Empire, January 15, 1958, Leningrad, Soviet Union) was a Soviet writer and playwright, whose works include twenty-five plays, and screenplays for three films (in collaboration with Nikolai Erdman).
L ...
's 1944 play ' (The Dragon). It premiered on 19 December 1969 at the
Berlin State Opera
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. It was revived in 2019 at the
Weimar Opera.
"Kritik: ''Lanzelot'' von Paul Dessau in Weimar – immerhin schafft der Drache Ordnung"
by Peter Jungblut, BR-Klassik
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, 26 November 2019
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Operas by Paul Dessau
German-language operas
Opera world premieres at the Berlin State Opera
Operas based on plays
Operas
1969 operas