Der Jasager
Music by Kurt Weill · libretto by Bertolt Brecht · premiered 1930
Der Jasager (literally The Yes Sayer; also translated as The Affirmer or He Said Yes) is an opera (specifically a Schuloper or "school-opera") by Kurt Weill to a German libretto by Bertolt Brecht (after Elisabeth Hauptmann's translation from Arthur Waley's English version of the Japanese Nō drama Taniko). Its companion piece is Der Neinsager (He Said No) although Brecht's other text was never set by Weill. Weill also identifies the piece, following Brecht's development of the experimental form, as a Lehrstück, or "teaching-piece".
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About the Composer
Kurt Julian Weill (; German: [vaɪl]; March 2, 1900 – April 3, 1950) was a German-born American composer active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht. With Brecht, he wrote his best-known work, The Threepenny Opera, which includes the ballad "Mack the Knife". Weill held the ideal of writing music that served a socially useful purpose, Gebrauchsmusik. He also wrote several works for the concert hall and a number of works on Jewish themes. He fled Nazi Germany in 1933, arriving in the United States two years later. Settling in New York, he…
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Other Operas by Kurt Weill
- Der Kuhhandel
- Der Silbersee (1844)
- Der Protagonist (1920)
- Der Zar lässt sich photographieren (1927)
- Mahagonny-Songspiel (1927)
- Die Bürgschaft (1931)
- Down in the Valley (1945)