Paul Dessau’s opera Lanzelot was one of the most significant and elaborate operas to be premiered in the GDR – a political fairy tale of the people who would rather live under the protection of a tyrant than dare try true freedom. More than half a century after its East Berlin premiere (1969), Dessau’s magnum opus is released on CD for the first time in an exemplary recording by the Deutsches Nationaltheater and the Staatskapelle Weimar as well as the Theater Erfurt.
