Die Stadt hinter dem Strom (The City Beyond the River) is a German-language oratorio-opera in three acts composed by Hans Vogt to a libretto by Hermann Kasack based on his 1947 dystopian novel Die Stadt hinter dem Strom.
Kasack had written Die Stadt hinter dem Strom in 1942, 1943 and 1946, dealing with the horrors of the world wars.
The "Oratorische Oper" (oratorio opera) premiered on Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk and BBC Radio in 1952.
[2][3][4][5] Vogt had collaborated with the librettist Hermann Kasack and also with the publisher and musicologist Fritz Oeser.
In an obituary for Oeser authored by Vogt, he recalled that Oeser had requested him to come to Wiesbaden to change the Chorprolog (choral prologue) and address a missing climax in one of the act 3 scenes and promised to pay for the change.