Der Silbersee

Der Silbersee: ein Wintermärchen (The Silver Lake: a Winter's Fairy Tale) is a 'play with music' in three acts by Kurt Weill to a German text by Georg Kaiser.

Original text

Der Silbersee was premiered on 18 February 1933 simultaneously at the Altes Theater (Leipzig), the Alte Oper (Erfurt) [de] and the Stadttheater Magdeburg. It was the last production of both Weill and Kaiser in the Weimar Republic before they were forced to emigrate. It was banned on 4 March 1933 by the Nazis after having been performed 16 times.

Performance history in South Africa

2001: Presented at Spier, staged as part of the Spier Festival (in collaboration with Broomhill Opera Company), directed by Mark Dornford-May. With Helen Burger (Lottery Agent), Pauline du Plessis (Fennimore), Minette du Toit (Shop Girl 2), Sam Goosen (Fat Policewoman), Buffy Davis (Frau von Luber), Kate Wilmot.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Silbersee

Catherine Elizabeth Fowles (nee) Wilmot. 2006. 'Kurt Weill’s opera Der Silbersee: Ein Wintermärchen (1932): an example of ‘Der Neue Oper’. Unpublished Masters thesis. University of the Witwatersrand.