1930 in Music - Opera

Opera

  • Ralph Benatzky - Im weissen Rössl
  • Leoš Janáček - From the House of the Dead
  • Arnold Schoenberg - Von Heute auf Morgen (1 February 1930, Frankfurt)
  • Kurt Weill - The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

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