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''[[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 Unpublished Masters thesis.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]].

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