Royal Palace is a 1925 one-act German-language ballet opera with a female choir in 13 scenes by Kurt Weill to a libretto by Yvan Goll. The premiere was on 2 March 1927 at the Berlin State Opera under the artistic direction of Erich Kleiber.Jazz & the Germans, Michael J. Budds, 2002, p. 103: "Weill's surrealist collaborations with Ivan Goll – notably Royal Palace – portray the need for the human spirit to ... Although Royal Palace is now considered by some scholars to be a key work in the stage music career of Kurt Weill ..."
The orchestral score and thus the original instrumentation was lost during the Nazi era and was reconstructed in 1971 by Noam Sheriff and Gunther Schuller, as a dance drama from a piano reduction with notes on the orchestration.Weill's Musical Theater: Stages of Reform, Stephen Hinton, 2012, p. 85: "In 2000, two productions occurred within weeks of each other, both using the orchestrated version prepared for a performance in 1971 by Gunther Schuller and Noam Sheriff, one fully staged, the other a concert performance"
Cast Dejanira (dramatic soprano) The Husband (bass) Yesterday's Lover (baritone) Tomorrow's Lover (tenor) The Young Fisherman (tenor) The Old Fisherman (bass) Ladies Choir (backstage)
References
External links "Royal Palace, op. 17", Kurt Weill Foundation