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composer: Kurt Weill
librettist: Bertolt Brecht
English version: Wystan Hugh Auden - Chester Kallman

Ballet Chanté

Text von Bertolt Brecht
Englisch von W. H. Auden und Chester Kallmann
Neuausgabe der Originalfassung

Premiere: 7. Juni 1933 Paris · Théâtre des Champs-Élysées · Dirigent: Maurice Abravanel · Choreographie: George Balanchine · Ausstattung: Caspar Neher
Orchestra instrumentation: 2 (auch Picc.) · 1 · 2 · 1 - 2 · 2 · 1 · 1 - 4 P. S. (Gong · Beck. · 3 Tomt. · gr. Tr. ) (2 Spieler) - Banjo (auch Git.) · Hfe. · Klav. - Str.
Cast of characters: Anna I · Sopran - Anna II · Tänzerin - Die Familie: Tenor I, II, Bariton, Bass (die Mutter) [Die transponierten Gesänge für die tiefe Frauenstimme erschienen als Anhang zur Neuausgabe.]
Publisher: Schott Music
Duration: 35' 0''
Year of composition: 1933
Edition: full score
Language: German - English
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Description:

Who can ever forget the wonderfully smoky and unsentimental voice of the great Lotte Lenya? The wife and congenial interpreter of the composer Kurt Weill, the scandalous chanteuse in 1920s Berlin, is inseparately bound up with 'Die Sieben Todsünden'. In the last joint work of Bert Brecht and Kurt Weill, a 'ballet chanté' in nine parts, Anna, coming from a lower middle-class family in Louisiana, sacrifices both her virtue and honour to make money. This is reflected in the music which, with its cool, jazzy and flippant sound of a street song, also adopts a soft, pleasing tone. Kurt Weill set music to Brecht's caustic and sarcastic criticism of capitalism in 1933 as an emigrant in Paris where his pictorial music, always closely bound to the text, was performed once in the choreography of George Balanchine. It was not until after the New York performance with Lotte Lenya in 1959 that 'Die Sieben Todsünden' became a regular part in the repertoire of concert halls and theatres throughout the world.

Content:

I Prolog "Meine Schwester und ich..."
II Faulheit "Hoffentlich nimmt sich unsere Anna auch zusammen..."
III Stolz "Als wir aber ausgestattet waren..."
IV Zorn "Das geht nicht vorwärts!"
V Völlerei "Da ist ein Brief aus Philadelphia..."
VI Unzucht "Und wir fanden einen Mann..."
VII Habsucht "Wie hier in der Zeitung steht..."
VIII Neid "Und die letzte Stadt der Reise..."
IX Epilog "Kehrten wir zurück nach Louisiana..."

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WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln - HK Gruber Philharmonie - Köln - Germany

WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln - HK Gruber Philharmonie, Alfried Krupp Saal - Essen - Germany

Judith Kubitz Stadttheater - Fürth - Germany

Golo Berg Anhaltisches Theater, Großes Haus - Dessau - Germany

Berliner Philharmoniker - Simon Rattle Großes Festspielhaus - Salzburg - Austria

Eun Sun Kim Musiktheater im Revier, Kleines Haus - Gelsenkirchen - Germany

Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia - Ingo Metzmacher Parco de Musica, Sala Santa Cecilia - Roma - Italy

Bruckner Orchester Linz - Dennis Russell Davies Brucknerhaus - Linz - Austria

Bruckner Orchester Linz - Dennis Russell Davies Salle Pleyel - Paris - France

Other editions:
ED 6005 = Klavierauszug (d., e.)

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