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Die Bürgschaft (opera)
''Die Bürgschaft'' (''The Pledge'') is an opera in three acts by Kurt Weill. Caspar Neher wrote the German libretto after the parable ''Der afrikanische Rechtspruch'' (''The African Verdict'') by Johann Gottfried Herder. Composed from August to October 1931, it was premiered on 10 March 1932 at the Städtische Oper in Berlin, Germany.
==Intent==
The opera dates from the years immediately prior to Weill's emigration to the United States. Representing "the summation of Weill's career as an opera composer in Europe,"〔Stephen Hinton: "Die Bürgschaft", (Grove Music Online ) ed. L. Macy (Accessed 13 November 2007)>.〕 it provides insight into the compositional path that Weill might have followed had he stayed in Europe. ''Die Bürgschaft'' is an opera of broad ambition and scope, far more somber in tone than Weill's prior works for the stage.〔 The work is in part the result of Weill's growing distance from Brecht during work on ''Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny'', leading the composer to turn to stage designer Caspar Neher, his longtime collaborator as a stage director, for the libretto.〔Kim H. Kowalke: "Kurt Weill's ''Die Bürgschaft''", Liner Notes to the EMI Classics 2000 Recording of ''Die Bürgschaft'' (2000).〕 ''Die Bürgschaft'' is, further, a product of its political climate, dubbed by Weill an opera that "attempts to adopt a position on matters that concern us all," and one of multiple Weill stage works of this period "addressing the problem of moral responsibility within a crumbling culture given over to greed, power, and inhumanity."〔 As Weill wrote in reaction to a review of the opera's premiere, "the job of opera today consists in reaching out beyond the fate of private individuals towards universality."〔 In addition to its sobriety and political undertones, ''Die Bürgschaft'' is a musical turning point for Weill. Weill characterized it as "a return to real music-making."〔 Multiple scholars have noted its departure from the "number opera" formula of works such as ''Die Dreigroschenoper'' and ''Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny'' in exchange for a more continuous sound, as well as a minimizing of satire and irony.〔〔〔 Certain of these scholars have also noted influences ranging from Handel and Verdi in its oratorio-like features to a detached and unemotional character indebted to Stravinsky's ''Oedipus Rex''.〔〔
''Die Bürgschaft'' concerns the rise to power of a money-driven dictatorship, bringing with it greed and destruction. The plot bears clear parallels with the rise of Nazism in Germany at the time, but as suggested above it also acts as a larger social parable dealing with man's role in society.〔 Indeed, the source for Herder's tale ''Der afrikanische Rechtspruch'', on which Neher's libretto was based, is the "Bava Metzia" section of the Talmud. Interpreted accordingly, the social parable of ''Die Bürgschaft'' is the covenant of rabbinical teaching: the bonds between men, between men and their community, and between forces within the community of men such as the law, the state, and the government.〔
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