
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
CultureGerman theatre directorsMarxist theoristsGerman Marxist writersGerman opera librettistsGerman male dramatists and playwrights, German male poetsGerman literary criticsProtestants in the German ResistanceExilliteratur writersBurials at the Dorotheenstadt CemeteryModernist theatreNaturalised citizens of AustriaFrederick 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
History18th-century German composersGerman opera librettistsGerman military writersGerman male classical composersRoyal reburials18th-century male musiciansGerman critics of ChristianityGerman classical composersGerman FreemasonsWriters from BerlinPeople of the Age of Enlightenment18th-century classical composersPeople of the Silesian Wars18th-century German LGBTQ people18th-century art collectors, German art collectors, People of the War of the Bavarian Succession, Recipients of the Order of the White Eagle (Poland)Wagner
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 autobiographersGerman theatre directorsGerman opera librettistsGerman Romantic composers, German male opera composers, German opera composers19th-century German male musiciansLeipzig University alumni19th-century German essayists19th-century German composers, 19th-century classical composersGerman male essayistsGerman music critics