Michael Kunze

World-renowned lyri­cist and libret­tist Michael Kunze cre­ated hit shows such as Elis­a­beth, Dance of the Vam­pires, Mozart!, Marie Antoinette, and Rebecca, which have reached a com­bined audi­ence of more than 16 mil­lion peo­ple in Europe and abroad. Their world­wide box office gross receipts have passed the one-billion mark.

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Drama Musicals

Michael Kunze explains:

“The mean­ing of the term musi­cal has become much too broad. We may talk about a musi­cal revue, a Broad­way com­edy, an Amer­i­can operetta, a the­atri­cal play with music, or even a series of musi­cal num­bers with­out any con­nec­tive story.”

“My musi­cals won’t fit any of these cat­e­gories – so I call them Drama Musi­cals.

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Workshop

In a series of short videos, Michael Kunze offers a free work­shop on the basic prin­ci­ples of drama musi­cal creation.

Top­ics range from the eval­u­a­tion of a story idea and the selec­tion of its pro­tag­o­nists to the essen­tial ele­ments of the musi­cal the­ater and its all-important dra­matic turn­ing points.

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Master Class

Master Class

Dur­ing his Sep­tem­ber 2009 keynote speech at the Sec­ond Euro­pean Con­fer­ence of the Musi­cal The­ater Edu­ca­tors Alliance Inter­na­tional, “A Tale of Two Cities”, in Ham­burg, Ger­many, Dr. Michael Kunze pre­sented an intro­duc­tory musi­cal mas­ter class.

Inter­est­ingly enough, his path from protest song writer to hit musi­cal author reflects in a way the exact struc­ture of a drama musi­cal, and Dr. Kunze wel­comes the oppor­tu­nity to share his expe­ri­ence with the world in this infor­mal mas­ter class set­ting. It shall serve as an exam­ple for other musi­cal authors to learn and to ben­e­fit from Michael’s proven method of cre­at­ing a spell­bind­ing work of musi­cal theater.

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