Opera for a New Republic: The Zeitopern of Krenek, Weill, and Hindemith

An exploration of avant-garde music and operatic form in Weimar Germany

Weimar Germany — the age of Bauhaus and Brecht — was a time of significant activity in all areas of the artistic avant-garde. Musicologist Susan Cook explores this intriguing period in a look at Zeitoper (topical opera)and its primary exponents, Ernst Krenek, Kurt Weill and Paul Hindemith. Zeitoper has proved to be of importance as an experimental form that broadened the definition of modern opera and musical theatre, in...