''Lanzelot'' is a 1969 opera by

Paul Dessau Paul Dessau (19 December 189428 June 1979) was a German composer and conductor. He collaborated with Bertolt Brecht and composed incidental music for his plays, and several operas based on them. Biography Dessau was born in Hamburg into a ...

to a

libretto A libretto (Italian for "booklet") is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or Musical theatre, musical. The term ''libretto'' is also sometimes used to refer to the t ...

Heiner Müller Heiner Müller (; 9 January 1929 – 30 December 1995) was a German (formerly East German) dramatist, poet, writer, essayist and theatre director. His "enigmatic, fragmentary pieces" are a significant contribution to postmodern drama and postdr ...

and , based on

Evgeny Schwartz Evgeny Lvovich Schwartz (russian: Евге́ний Льво́вич Шва́рц; , Kazan, Russian Empire – January 15, 1958, Leningrad, Soviet Union) was a Soviet writer and playwright, whose works include twenty-five plays, and screenplay ...

's 1944 play ' (The Dragon). It premiered on 19 December 1969 at the

Berlin State Opera The (), also known as the Berlin State Opera (german: Staatsoper Berlin), is a listed building on Unter den Linden boulevard in the historic center of Berlin, Germany. The opera house was built by order of Prussian king Frederick the Great from ...

. It was revived in 2019 at the Weimar Opera."Kritik: ''Lanzelot'' von Paul Dessau in Weimar – immerhin schafft der Drache Ordnung"
by Peter Jungblut,

BR-Klassik BR Klassik is a Munich-based public radio station and classical record label owned and operated by Bayerischer Rundfunk Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR; "Bavarian Broadcasting") is a public-service radio and television broadcaster, based in Munich, ...

, 26 November 2019

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lanzelot Operas by Paul Dessau German-language operas Opera world premieres at the Berlin State Opera Operas based on plays Operas 1969 operas