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The Seven Deadly Sins
Ballet Chanté
Text by Bertolt Brecht
2 pianos and percussion
Edition: Performance material
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Description
The sisters Anna 1 and Anna 2 are sent on a seven-year journey to various North American cities by their family to earn money for ‘a small house near the Mississippi’. During their journey, they are tempted by the seven biblical deadly sins. Gradually, they give up their dreams and ideals eventually to return to Louisiana to their family, completely disillusioned.
Kurt Weill composed the ballet chanté Die sieben Todsünden, based on a text by Bertolt Brecht, in 1933 in his Paris exile. Premièred in the ballet version of Georges Balanchine at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées on 7 June 1933, it quickly became one of his best-known works. The music plays with popular American music styles of the twenties such as tango, foxtrot, polka or barbershop. Weill and Brecht perfectly ironize the petty bourgeois double standards of each society willing to sacrifice their values for the sake of financial gain.
This edition is meant for concerto performances by schools and amateur music societies only. Stage performances – of the complete work or of parts thereof – shall be permitted only in exceptional cases with prior written approval of Schott Music Mainz GmbH & Co. KG. The same applies to live recordings and later radio and television broadcasts of them, other films including audiovisual recordings (videotapes, video discs and any other audio / video recordings) as well as any kind of audio recordings.
Kurt Weill composed the ballet chanté Die sieben Todsünden, based on a text by Bertolt Brecht, in 1933 in his Paris exile. Premièred in the ballet version of Georges Balanchine at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées on 7 June 1933, it quickly became one of his best-known works. The music plays with popular American music styles of the twenties such as tango, foxtrot, polka or barbershop. Weill and Brecht perfectly ironize the petty bourgeois double standards of each society willing to sacrifice their values for the sake of financial gain.
This edition is meant for concerto performances by schools and amateur music societies only. Stage performances – of the complete work or of parts thereof – shall be permitted only in exceptional cases with prior written approval of Schott Music Mainz GmbH & Co. KG. The same applies to live recordings and later radio and television broadcasts of them, other films including audiovisual recordings (videotapes, video discs and any other audio / video recordings) as well as any kind of audio recordings.
Orchestral Cast
S. (Beck. · Gong · Tomt. · gr. Tr.) (1 Spieler)
Content
I Prolog
II Faulheit
III Stolz
IV Zorn
V Völlerei
VI Unzucht
VII Habsucht
VIII Neid
IX Epilog
II Faulheit
III Stolz
IV Zorn
V Völlerei
VI Unzucht
VII Habsucht
VIII Neid
IX Epilog
Cast
Anna I · Sopran - Anna II · Tänzerin - Die Familie: Tenor I, II, Bariton, Bass (die Mutter)
[Die transponierten Gesänge für tiefe Frauenstimme erschienen als Anhang zur Neuausgabe.]
[Die transponierten Gesänge für tiefe Frauenstimme erschienen als Anhang zur Neuausgabe.]
More Information
Title:
The Seven Deadly Sins
Ballet Chanté
Text by Bertolt Brecht
English by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman
Version for 2 pianos and percussion by John Greer (2018)
Language:
German, English
Edition:
Performance material
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
1933
Duration:
35 ′
World Premiere:
June 20, 2018 · Stockholm (S)
Årsta Teater
Karin Haglund, piano; Anna Christensson, piano · Conductor: Anna Christensson
Original staging: Dan Turdén · Costumes: Maria Peterson · Set desing: Dan Turdén; Per Wittsäter · Choreography: Sara Ribbenstedt
(scenic)
Årsta Teater
Karin Haglund, piano; Anna Christensson, piano · Conductor: Anna Christensson
Original staging: Dan Turdén · Costumes: Maria Peterson · Set desing: Dan Turdén; Per Wittsäter · Choreography: Sara Ribbenstedt
(scenic)
Technical Details
Product number:
LS 4213-03
Delivery rights:
Worldwide
Performances
The Seven Deadly Sins
Conductor: Beate Schmalbrock
Orchestra: Klangturm Ensemble
March 26, 2023 |
Bottrop (Germany) , Malakoffturm — National Premiere
The Seven Deadly Sins
Conductor: Kamal Khan
April 24, 2022 |
New York, NY (United States of America) , John Jay College, Gerald W. Lynch Theater
The Seven Deadly Sins
Conductor: Kamal Khan
April 23, 2022 |
New York, NY (United States of America) , John Jay College, Gerald W. Lynch Theater
The Seven Deadly Sins
Conductor: Kamal Khan
April 22, 2022 |
New York, NY (United States of America) , John Jay College, Gerald W. Lynch Theater
The Seven Deadly Sins
Conductor: Kamal Khan
April 20, 2022 |
New York, NY (United States of America) , John Jay College, Gerald W. Lynch Theater — First Night
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