School opera
School operas are operas and staged cantatas that can be performed by (around 8 to 20) children. The first attempts at school opera were made in the Middle Ages. In the Middle Ages as in humanism, the scenic and musical game served the religious instruction of the students and the introduction to Latin. However, musical play in school only flourished much later, after the end of the First World War in the 1930s.
Well-known school operas
- Johann Friedrich Doles , Germany pleased Germany with a general peace after heavy wars , 1748
- Georg Gottfried Petri, The Three Men in the Fiery Furnace , 1765
- Antonio Coronaro, Falco di Calaliia , 1903
- David John de Lloyd, Pwyll a Rhiannon , 1925
- Kurt Weill , The Yes Man , 1929
- Paul Hindemith , We're building a new city , 1930
- Kurt Weill, The Naysayer , 1930
- Hugo Herrmann , The Record , 1930
- Wolfgang Fortner , Cress Drowns , 1930
- Wolfgang Jacobi , The Jobsiade , 1931
- Hans-Joachim Moser , The Traveling Comrade , 1931
- Werner Wehrli , On to the Moon , 1932
- Huldreich Georg Früh, Ferien juchhe , 1936
- Kurt Brüggemann , De Fischer and syne Fru , 1936
- Kurt Brüggemann, The Cold Heart , 1937
- Aaron Copland , The Second Hurricane , 1937
- Hans Krása , Brundibár , 1938
- Kurt Weill , Down in the valley , 1945/1948
- Cesar Bresgen , The Hedgehog as a Groom , 1948
- Cesar Bresgen, Little Brother Dog , 1953
- Cesar Bresgen, The Wedding Flight , 1954
- Armin Kaufmann , The Noise in the Oven , 1957
- Kurt Schwaen , King Midas , 1958
- Kaspar Roeseling, Court of Reinecke Fuchs , 1958
- Cesar Bresgen, The Man in the Moon , 1960
- Paul Burkhard, D Zäller Wiehnacht , 1960
- Cesar Bresgen, Ali and the Picture Thieves , 1961
- Heinrich Funk, On Vacation Trip , 1961
- Cesar Bresgen, Bastian, the slacker , 1965
- Cesar Bresgen, Trubloff , 1969
- Cesar Bresgen, The Dissolute Ferdinand , 1972
- Cesar Bresgen, Hafis , 1975
- Cesar Bresgen, King Nutcracker , 1987
- Cesar Bresgen, Krabat , 1982–1984, text: Otfried Preußler
- Cesar Bresgen, Die Stadthüpfer , 1985
- Cesar Bresgen, Albolina , 1985/86
- Jörg Widmann , Absences , 1990
- Istvan Nagy , The Little Golden Boot , 1996
- Moritz Eggert , Dr Popels nasty trap , 2002
- Heino Schubert , Kasperl is getting rich
- Benjamin Britten , Let's make an opera / The Little Sweep
- Julian Pesek , Krabat
- Thomas Kniehauer and Christine Lenartz, Das Moorschloß , 2008
Individual evidence
literature
Horst Braun: Investigations on the typology of contemporary school and youth opera. Cologne Contributions to Music Research, Vol. 27, Regensburg 1963