Royal Palace (opera)

Royal Palace is a 1925 one-act German-language ballet opera with a female choir in 13 scenes by Kurt Weil 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.^[1]

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.^[2]

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)