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Das Nusch-Nuschi

Das Nusch-Nuschi
Opera by Paul Hindemith
Paul Hindemith 1923.jpg
The composer in 1923
Description A play for Burmese marionettes
Librettist Franz Blei
Language German
Premiere 4 June 1921 (1921-06-04)
Landestheater Stuttgart

Das Nusch-Nuschi (The Nusch-Nuschi) is an opera in one act by Paul Hindemith, with a German libretto by Franz Blei.

Subtitled A Play for Burmese Marionettes it is in fact a fully staged work with both singers and dancers, the second in a triptych of expressionist influenced one-act operas, the others being Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen, op. 12 (1919), and Sancta Susanna, op. 21 (1921).

It was first performed on 4 June 1921, at the Landestheater, Stuttgart under the baton of Fritz Busch; Oskar Schlemmer was the director.

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