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- Der Weg der Verheißung ist ein jüdisches Oratorium in mehreren Akten von Franz Werfel und Kurt Weill, das erstmals 1937 in New York in englischer Übersetzung unter dem Titel The Eternal Road aufgeführt wurde. Regie führte damals Max Reinhardt. Die deutschsprachige Erstaufführung fand erst im Jahr 1999 in Chemnitz statt. (de)
- The Eternal Road is an opera-oratorio with spoken dialogue in four acts by Kurt Weill with a libretto (originally in German: Der Weg der Verheißung – The Way of the Covenant), by Austrian novelist and playwright Franz Werfel and translated into English by Ludwig Lewisohn. The Eternal Road premiered at the Manhattan Opera House on January 7, 1937, given a lavish and spectacular production involving 245 actors, and ran for 153 performances. Although it received good reviews, it was not revived for 63 years. The piece was conceived by Zionist activist Meyer Weisgal to alert the then-ignorant public to Hitler's persecution of the Jews in 1937 Germany. Weisgal enlisted the help of director Max Reinhardt, who found Weill to compose the music and Werfel to write the libretto. Set in a synagogue where Jews hide all night as a pogrom rages outside, the story combines Biblical and pre-World War II Jewish history. The rabbi reads from the Torah, leading, in each act, to the exploration and re-enactment of a different Biblical theme. At the conclusion, the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem and the deportation of those hiding become one, while the despair of a scattered people is balanced by a messianic voice that speaks of hope for deliverance of the Jews in Zion – (although by 1937 Jews were unable to emigrate from Germany to most countries and were barred from Palestine). The music evokes cantorial lamentations, classical fugues and showtunes, among other styles. (en)
- The Eternal Road (Tyska: Der Weg der Verheißung) är en opera i fyra akter med musik av Kurt Weill och libretto av Franz Werfel översatt till engelska av Ludwig Lewisohn. (sv)
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- Biblical and pre-World War II Jewish history (en)
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- The composer in 1932 (en)
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- English, translated by Ludwig Lewisohn (en)
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- Manhattan Opera House, New York City (en)
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- Der Weg der Verheißung ist ein jüdisches Oratorium in mehreren Akten von Franz Werfel und Kurt Weill, das erstmals 1937 in New York in englischer Übersetzung unter dem Titel The Eternal Road aufgeführt wurde. Regie führte damals Max Reinhardt. Die deutschsprachige Erstaufführung fand erst im Jahr 1999 in Chemnitz statt. (de)
- The Eternal Road (Tyska: Der Weg der Verheißung) är en opera i fyra akter med musik av Kurt Weill och libretto av Franz Werfel översatt till engelska av Ludwig Lewisohn. (sv)
- The Eternal Road is an opera-oratorio with spoken dialogue in four acts by Kurt Weill with a libretto (originally in German: Der Weg der Verheißung – The Way of the Covenant), by Austrian novelist and playwright Franz Werfel and translated into English by Ludwig Lewisohn. The Eternal Road premiered at the Manhattan Opera House on January 7, 1937, given a lavish and spectacular production involving 245 actors, and ran for 153 performances. Although it received good reviews, it was not revived for 63 years. (en)
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- Der Weg der Verheißung (de)
- The Eternal Road (opera) (en)
- The Eternal Road (sv)
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