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Die Verurteilung des Lukullus

Music by Paul Dessau · libretto by Bertolt Brecht · premiered 1951

Die Verurteilung des Lukullus (The Condemnation of Lucullus) is an opera by Paul Dessau to a libretto by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht. Brecht's dramatic text for the opera is more or less identical to that of the radio-play The Trial of Lucullus, which was written in 1938–9.

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Paul Dessau is the composer of record for this opera.

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