Das Nusch-Nuschi | |
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Opera by Paul Hindemith | |
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Description | A play for Burmese marionettes |
Librettist | Franz Blei |
Language | German |
Premiere | 4 June 1921 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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