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Kurt Weill (Composer) | Bertolt Brecht (Librettist)

The Seven Deadly Sins

Ballet Chanté
Text by Bertolt Brecht
Edition: Performance material
Series: Die sieben Todsünden
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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.

Orchestral Cast

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.

Content

I Prolog
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.]

More Information

Title:
The Seven Deadly Sins
Ballet Chanté
Text by Bertolt Brecht
English by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman
New edition of the original version
Language:
German, English
Edition:
Performance material
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
1933
Duration:
35 ′0 ′′
World Premiere:
June 7, 1933 · Paris (F)
Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
Conductor: Maurice Abravanel
Costumes: Caspar Neher · Set design: Caspar Neher · Choreography: George Balanchine
Series:
Die sieben Todsünden
Keywords:
#ballet #bible #America #polka #satire #family #bertolt brecht #anger / rage / fury #USA #idleness #gluttony #fornication #envy #georges balanchine #foxtrott #barbershop #pride #greed #lust #sloth #moral double standards #capitalism #money #ostracized music #tango

Technical Details

Media Type:
Hire/performance material
Product number:
LS 4213-01
Delivery rights:
Worldwide
Manufacturer:
Schott Music GmbH & Co. KG
55116 Mainz
Germany

Persons

Kurt Weill (Composer)

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  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Teddy Abrams
    Orchestra: Louisville Orchestra
    September 25, 2014 | Louisville, KY (United States of America) , Kentucky Center, Whitney Hall
    10:30
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Grant Park Music Festival
    Conductor: Carlos Kalmar
    August 6, 2014 | Chicago, IL (United States of America) , Grant Park Music Festival
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Orchestra: The Knights
    June 21, 2014 | Berkeley, CA (United States of America) , North Ojai
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Orchestra: The Knights
    June 14, 2014 | Ojai, CA (United States of America) , Ojai Music Festival
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Mark Elder
    Orchestra: Hallé Orchestra
    April 10, 2014 | Manchester (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , Bridgewater Hall
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Steven Sloane
    Orchestra: Bochumer Symphoniker
    February 21, 2014 | Bochum (Germany) , Schauspielhaus
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Steven Sloane
    Orchestra: Bochumer Symphoniker
    February 20, 2014 | Bochum (Germany) , Schauspielhaus
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Jonathan Stockhammer
    Orchestra: Kristiansand Symfoniorkester
    January 30, 2014 | Kristiansand (Norway) , Kilden
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Kristiina Poska; Ralf Sochaczewsky, 22.11.2013
    December 2, 2013 | Berlin (Germany) , Komische Oper
    19:30
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Kristiina Poska; Ralf Sochaczewsky, 22.11.2013
    November 22, 2013 | Berlin (Germany) , Komische Oper
    20:00
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Kristiina Poska; Ralf Sochaczewsky, 22.11.2013
    November 17, 2013 | Berlin (Germany) , Komische Oper
    20:00
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: HK Gruber
    Orchestra: Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
    November 15, 2013 | Paris (France) , Cité de la musique, Salle Pleyel
    20:00
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Kristiina Poska; Ralf Sochaczewsky, 22.11.2013
    November 1, 2013 | Berlin (Germany) , Komische Oper — Revival
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Marc Leroy-Calatayud
    Orchestra: Orchestre de Quat’sous
    September 19, 2013 | Düdingen (Switzerland) , Podium
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Jan Moritz Onken
    Orchestra: Odeion School Orchestra
    September 18, 2013 | Bloemfontein (South Africa) , Odeion Music School
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Edinburgh International Festival 2013
    Conductor: Jessica Cottis
    August 23, 2013 | Edinburgh (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , Paterson's Land
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Edinburgh International Festival 2013
    Conductor: Jessica Cottis
    August 22, 2013 | Edinburgh (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , Paterson's Land
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Edinburgh International Festival 2013
    Conductor: Jessica Cottis
    August 21, 2013 | Edinburgh (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , Paterson's Land
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Edinburgh International Festival 2013
    Conductor: Jessica Cottis
    August 20, 2013 | Edinburgh (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , Paterson's Land
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Aspen Music Festival 2013
    Conductor: Joshua Weilerstein
    August 14, 2013 | Aspen, CO (United States of America) , Harris Concert Hall
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