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Stage music for Pokusa [Der nisojen] by Jakub Preger (1927)
Vocal-instrumental and Vocal Works, Music for Theatre, Work without Opus Number
Manuscript: Unknown
Premiere: Lwów, August 1927 (Chwila 1927, no. 3017)
Vilnius troupe in Lwów, Chwila: dodatek ilustrowany 1930, no. 11
Performance of Preger's Pokusa [The Temptation] in Kołomyja (playbill), Nasz Głos 1927, no. 32 (Nov. 11)
Information about performances of Pokusa in Lwów, Chwila 1927, no. 3024 (Aug. 20)
Vilnius troupe in Lwów, Chwila: dodatek ilustrowany 1930, no. 11
Performance of Preger's Pokusa [The Temptation] in Kołomyja (playbill), Nasz Głos 1927, no. 32 (Nov. 11)
Information about performances of Pokusa in Lwów, Chwila 1927, no. 3024 (Aug. 20)
Vilnius troupe in Lwów, Chwila: dodatek ilustrowany 1930, no. 11
Performance of Preger's Pokusa [The Temptation] in Kołomyja (playbill), Nasz Głos 1927, no. 32 (Nov. 11)
Information about performances of Pokusa in Lwów, Chwila 1927, no. 3024 (Aug. 20)
Press notice, Chwila 1927, no. 3017 (Aug. 3)
Staged in 1927 at Lwów’s Nowości Theatre by Dawid Herman, the father of Poland’s modern Jewish scene and the spiritus movens of the so-called Vilnius troupe. For this production, Koffler composed ‘a special music illustration based on Jewish and Polish motifs’ (Chwila, 13 Aug. 1927). The sets were created by Zygmunt Balk, costumes – by Ludwik Lille.
The play recounts a folk legend about a handsome young tailor who agreed to be buried alive in order not to succumb to his lust for the daughter of a rich landowner.