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The Black Rider

The Black Rider is an opera - based on 19th century german folklore - written by musician Tom Waits in collaboration with writer William S. Burroughs. It premiered at Hamburg's Thalia Theatre on March 31, 1990. See also The Black Rider (album).

Story: A file clerk (Wilhelm) and a huntsman's daughter are desperately in love. In order to marry, he must prove his worth as a hunter and gain her fathers approval. Being a man of pen and ink, his shot is lousy and his hopes of marriage worse. That is until he is offered magic bullets by the devil - Pegleg, the eponymous 'Black Rider' - who assures him that with these he will always have a sure shot. The deal is that one of the bullets is under the control of Pegleg. Foolish, naive, and overrun with desperate hope, he accepts this Faustian pact - only to find that on the day of his contest the final bullet strikes dead his beloved. He joins the previous victims of Satan's cunning in the Devil's carnival.

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