Dantons Tod (German for Danton's Death) is an opera by composer Gottfried von Einem. Librettists: Boris Blacher and Gottfried von Einem (after Büchner). Its first performance took place in Salzburg, August 6, 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...
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Dantons Tod (German for Danton's Death) is an opera by composer Gottfried von Einem. Librettists: Boris Blacher and Gottfried von Einem (after Büchner). Its first performance took place in Salzburg, August 6, 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 the Second World War: 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.
Dantons Tod was adapted from Georg Büchner's play by Einem and his teacher, composer Boris Blacher. The protagonist is Georges Danton, a leader in the French government during the Revolution. When he turned against...
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