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The Broken Jug / The Donkey's Shadow
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TOURDATA
Am Volksgarten 1, 4020 Linz
The double evening featuring two operas by Viktor Ullmann (1898–1944) and Richard Strauss (1864–1949) presents two comedic works that have much in common, as both revolve around a court trial. They come from two contemporaries whose life paths, however, diverged greatly. While Strauss was the most successful German opera composer of his time, who also managed to accommodate himself to the Nazi regime, Ullmann was murdered in Auschwitz. Thus, these differing biographies sensitize the audience to aspects of miscarriage of justice and abuse of power when combining the two operas. Ullmann completed his opera based on Kleist's popular comedy in 1942, shortly before his deportation. The Shadow of the Donkey, based on an ancient subject, is Richard Strauss's last stage work, which he began in 1947, and in which the experiences of the dictatorship era inevitably resonate.
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