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Die Königin von Saba (The Queen of Sheba) is Karl Goldmark’s most famous opera. Premiering in Vienna in 1875, its imaginative plot revolves around a love triangle involving the Queen of Sheba, Assad…
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Karl Goldmark
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Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1875
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Judith:Ev’rything lies deep in shadow.[She feels her way forward.][She shudders.]The walls are sweating.Tell me BluebeardWhy this moisture on my fingers?Walls and rafters, all are weeping.[She covers…
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Béla Balázs
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Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1911
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Gadhi, A PariaMaja, his WifeBenassar, Indian Attendant
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Michael Beer
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1823
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Odets:(pulls a silver cigarette case from his pocket, takes out an unfiltered cigarette, offers the case to Werfel) Smoke?Werfel:Nicotine is bad for you…thanks. (He takes out three cigarettes and puts…
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Michaela Ronzoni
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Vienna, Austria
Date:
1997
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Schnitzler’s personal and professional experiences, including his Jewish faith and extensive education in medicine, inform the themes he addresses in his literary works.
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Arthur Schnitzler
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Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1912
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Jeremiah:Not now the time for beginnings. The end draws nigh.The Mother:It is time! It is time! Long since have you grown to manhood. The house has need of a wife, and of children to raise up seed to…
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Stefan Zweig
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Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1917
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One Who Is Rebellious:To obey commandments of which merely the ear is aware,Yet remain deaf to urges that shake the whole being;To regard as good the former,Which reveal the soul so as to abandon it…
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Arnold Schoenberg
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Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1917
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Karle:Who is coming? What do I hear! God Almighty![Markwitz standing in the door.]Markwitz, tall, thin appearance. Threadbare elegance of the nineties. He is, without a doubt, a…
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Max Reinhardt
Places:
Berlin, Germany
Date:
1901
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Witness 4:When we had crossed the tracksand were waitingat the entrance to the campI hearda prisoner say to a womanThe Red Cross van is only usedto carry gas to the crematoriaYour…
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Peter Weiss
Places:
Stockholm, Sweden
Date:
1965