07/06/2011

Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins in New Productions at Castleton and Central City Opera

Following the New York City Ballet’s new production of The Seven Deadly Sins in May, Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s ballet chant é will enjoy two more new stage productions this summer, this time on opera stages. The Seven Deadly Sins will be presented at the Castleton Festival in ...

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05/09/2011

Work of the Week - Kurt Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins

On May 11, New York City Ballet premieres a new production of Kurt Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins , choreographed by the Tony-nominated director and choreographer Lynne Taylor-Corbett and starring Patti LuPone as Anna I. Ms. LuPone first sang Anna I in concert at the Cincinnati May Festival ...

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10/06/2010

Alexander Goehr - Promised End

Leading British composer Alexander Goehr’s fifth opera, Promised End , will receive its world premiere in London on 9th October at the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Theatre before embarking on a UK tour.  A meditation on Shakespeare’s King Lear, directed by James Conway and presented by English ...

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12/18/2009

Great Gift Ideas from the Kurt Weill Edition Series

The award-winning Kurt Weill Edition , a publication series dedicated to presenting each of Kurt Weill's complete and performable works in comprehensive, new critical editions, offers two unique facsimile publications of the music of Kurt Weill as an ideal gift for the musician who has it all...almost.  ...

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08/19/2009

David Drew - In Memoriam

The distinguished musicologist David Drew, has died aged 78.   Alexander Goehr has written a moving tribute to his old friend in The Guardian, which we reproduce here. "No job description, whether musicologist, critic, cultural historian, publisher or editor quite fits David Drew, who has ...

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02/22/2009

Work of the Week - Paul Dessau: The Magic Clock

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05/28/2007

Work of the Week - Kurt Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins

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07/31/2006

Work of the Week - Hans Werner Henze: Voices

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