Zürich Opera House
Beer joined a Viennese ballet company as conductor and toured with the company extensively in Austria and throughout the Middle East. While on tour, he played some of his compositions to the librettist Fritz Löhner-Beda who was so impressed that he became very instrumental in Beer's budding career. Their first collaboration, "", which also included the librettist , premiered on 31 March 1934 at the Zürich Opera House and subsequently toured extensively in Europe and South America.