Opera by Giselher Klebe
Jacobowsky und der Oberst, Op. 49, ("Jacobovsky and the Colonel") is an opera in four acts by Giselher Klebe who also wrote the libretto based on the 1944 play "Jacobowsky und der Oberst" by Franz Werfel.
It premiered on 2 November 1965 at the Hamburg State Opera which had commissioned the work. Klebe dedicated it to the then director of the Staatsoper, Rolf Liebermann.
Roles.
Time and place: 1940, Paris, St. Cyrill, Bayonne and Saint-Jean-de-Luz
The first American performance was on 27 June 1967 at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, using the same cast, conducted by Matthias Kuntzsch.