Die Zaubergeige

Die Zaubergeige is a 1935 opera by Werner Egk to a libretto by Ludwig Strecker after Count Franz Pocci. Egk revised the opera in 1954.^[1]

Die Zaubergeige
Opera by Werner Egk
Translation	The magic violin
Librettist	Ludwig Strecker Jr.
Language	German
Premiere	22 May 1935 (1935-05-22) Frankfurt Opera

Recordings

• Die Zaubergeige (excerpts): Marcel Cordes, Erika Köth, Elisabeth Lindermeier, Gottlob Frick, Richard Holm, Choir & Orchestra of the Bayerisches Staatsoper, Werner Egk

References

1. The Oxford Dictionary of Music 0199578540 ed. Michael Kennedy, Tim Rutherford-Johnson, Joyce Kennedy-2013 p.256 "operas: Columbus (1933 radio, 1942 stage); Die Zaubergeige (1935, rev. 1954); *Peer Gynt (1938); Circe (1945, rev. 1966 as 17 Tage und 4 Minuten); *Irische Legende (after Yeats, 1955, rev. 1970); Der Revisor (after Gogol's The *Government Inspector, 1957); Die Verlobung in San Domingo (1963). "