Work Data
Dantons Tod
Year of publication: 1835
Period: Classicismo e Romantismo (1750-1850)
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Dantons Tod (German for Danton's Death) is an opera by Gottfried von Einem to a libretto by Boris Blacher and Gottfried von Einem after Georg Büchner's 1835 play of the same name. Its first performance took place in Salzburg on 6 August 1947. It was revised in 1955. The successful premiere of Gottfried von Einem's opera Dantons Tod at the 1947 Salzburg Festival and its quick staging by European houses were due to more than the strong drama of Einem's score. This was a first step toward the rehabilitation of German musicians after World War II; an opera by a young Austrian composer who had not collaborated in the former regime's cultural policies. Dantons Tod dramatizes legalized governmental terror, a plague which the world at the time realized had not been eradicated with the end of the war.
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| Title | Translators | Classification | Year | Downloads |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A morte de Danton: Quadros dramáticos da época do terror na França | Mário da Silva | Drama | 1967 | No |
| A morte de Danton | Christine Röhrig | Drama | 2007 | No |
| A morte de Danton: Quadros dramáticos da época do terror na França | Mário da Silva | Drama | 1965 | No |