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200 000 Taler is an opera by Boris Blacher after Sholem Aleichem's story "Dos groijse Gewins" (The big win) about tailor Schimele Soroker and his family after he comes to great fortune by winning the lottery. The opera was premiered at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on 25 September 1969. [1]

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References

  1. "200000-Taler-Mißverständnis" by Heinz Josef Herbort, Die Zeit , 3 October 1969 (in German)
  2. Arlo Mckinnon (January 2015). "Blacher: 200 000 Taler". Opera News (review). Vol. 79, no. 7.