Werner Egk’s Columbus: an opera about Christopher Columbus in Nazi Germany
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Christopher Columbus, German opera, music of the third Reich, the discovery of America in the Arts.
Abstract
Columbus, German musician Werner Egk’s (1901-1983) first opera, was composed as a radio opera. Its first transmission was in 1933, shortly after the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany, and was harshly criticized. However, a year later the opera was performed as concert in Munich and in 1941 a version for the stage was premiered at the Frankfurt Opera. Columbus was represented even after the fall of the Nazi regime and the composer prepared a third version in 1951. In this paper we study how this opera, outside and even contrary to the ideological principles of Nazism, got inserted into its official culture.Downloads
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Published
2017-04-24
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GutIérrez Meza J. E. (2017). Werner Egk’s Columbus: an opera about Christopher Columbus in Nazi Germany. Revista de Filología Románica, 33, 89-97. https://doi.org/10.5209/RFRM.55861
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