German opera librettists
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Bertolt Brecht
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the works and ideas of this great German playwright from the Weimar Republic to his exile under the Nazis and return to Berlin after World War Two.
25 April 2024
Featuring: Laura Bradley, David Barnett, Tom Kuhn
CultureNaturalised citizens of AustriaGerman male dramatists and playwrights, German male poetsGerman literary criticsModernist theatreProtestants in the German ResistanceBurials at the Dorotheenstadt CemeteryGerman Marxist writersExilliteratur writersMarxist theoristsGerman theatre directorsGerman opera librettistsGermanyFrederick the Great
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Frederick II, king of Prussia from 1740 to 1786.
2 July 2015
Featuring: Tim Blanning, Katrin Kohl, Thomas Biskup
HistoryGerman critics of ChristianityWriters from BerlinGerman FreemasonsGerman male classical composers18th-century classical composersRoyal reburials18th-century male musiciansGerman classical composersPeople of the Silesian Wars18th-century German LGBTQ peoplePeople of the Age of EnlightenmentGerman military writersGerman opera librettists18th-century German composers18th-century art collectors, German art collectors, People of the War of the Bavarian Succession, Recipients of the Order of the White Eagle (Poland)18th centuryGermanyMusicWagner
Melvyn Bragg discusses the life, and legacy of the German composer Richard Wagner, mentor of Nietzsche and disciple of Schopenhauer, who changed the face of 19th century opera.
20 June 2002
Featuring: John Deathridge, Lucy Beckett, Michael Tanner
German music critics19th-century German male musiciansLeipzig University alumni19th-century German essayistsGerman male essayistsGerman Romantic composers, German male opera composers, German opera composersGerman theatre directors19th-century German composers, 19th-century classical composersGerman opera librettistsGerman autobiographers19th centuryGermanyMusic