Christopher Columbus is an opera in one act by composer Eugene Zador with a German-language libretto by Archduke Joseph Francis of Austria.[1] Zador, a Hungarian-Jew, wrote the opera while voyaging across the Atlantic Ocean in 1939 to flee persecution from Nazi Germany.[2] The work depicts the first voyage of Christopher Columbus to America in 1492. Soprano Josepha Chekova wrote an English-language translation to the work for its world premiere on October 9, 1939.[1][3] Her translation has been used several times for performances of the work in the United States, including on a recording made by the American Symphony Orchestra in 1975.[3] The opera is approximately one hour in length.[1]
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