- Opening date
- February 18, 1933
- Comments
- "Der Silbersee: ein Wintermärchen "(The Silver Lake: a Winter's Fairy Tale) is a "play with music" in three acts by Kurt Weill to a text by Georg Kaiser. It premiered simultaneously at the "Altes Theater" in Leipzig, the "Stadttheater" in Erfurt and the "Stadttheater" in Magdeburg, just three weeks after the Adolf Hitler's rise to power on 30 January 1933. It was the last production of both Weill and Kaiser in the Weimar Republic before they were forced to emigrate and it was banned on 4 March 1933 by the Nazis after having been performed 16 times. In Lepzig the role of Fennimore was played by Lotte Lenya.