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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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    The Seven Deadly Sins
    An Stelle von Heimat - Ballettabend von Steffen Fuchs
    Conductor: Leslie Suganandarajah
    December 8, 2012 | Koblenz (Germany) , Theater
    19:30
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    An Stelle von Heimat - Ballettabend von Steffen Fuchs
    Conductor: Leslie Suganandarajah
    November 11, 2012 | Koblenz (Germany) , Theater
    18:00
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    An Stelle von Heimat - Ballettabend von Steffen Fuchs
    Conductor: Leslie Suganandarajah
    November 7, 2012 | Koblenz (Germany) , Theater
    19:30
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    An Stelle von Heimat - Ballettabend von Steffen Fuchs
    Conductor: Leslie Suganandarajah
    November 4, 2012 | Koblenz (Germany) , Theater
    18:00
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies
    October 28, 2012 | Linz (Austria) , Großes Haus Promenade
    17.00 h
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    An Stelle von Heimat - Ballettabend von Steffen Fuchs
    Conductor: Leslie Suganandarajah
    October 25, 2012 | Koblenz (Germany) , Theater
    19:30
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies
    October 25, 2012 | Linz (Austria) , Großes Haus Promenade
    19.30 h
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies
    October 21, 2012 | Linz (Austria) , Großes Haus Promenade
    19.30 h
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies
    October 19, 2012 | Linz (Austria) , Großes Haus Promenade
    19.30 h
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    An Stelle von Heimat - Ballettabend von Steffen Fuchs
    Conductor: Leslie Suganandarajah
    October 14, 2012 | Koblenz (Germany) , Theater
    14:30
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies
    October 13, 2012 | Linz (Austria) , Großes Haus Promenade — First Night
    19.30 h
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    An Stelle von Heimat - Ballettabend von Steffen Fuchs
    Conductor: Leslie Suganandarajah
    October 12, 2012 | Koblenz (Germany) , Theater
    19:30
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    An Stelle von Heimat - Ballettabend von Steffen Fuchs
    Conductor: Leslie Suganandarajah
    October 2, 2012 | Koblenz (Germany) , Theater
    19:30
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    An Stelle von Heimat - Ballettabend von Steffen Fuchs
    Conductor: Leslie Suganandarajah
    September 29, 2012 | Koblenz (Germany) , Theater — First Night
    19:30
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Musikfest Stuttgart 2012
    Conductor: Markus Huber
    Orchestra: Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz
    September 6, 2012 | Stuttgart (Germany) , Theaterhaus, T1
    19.00 h
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 2012
    Conductor: Steven Sloane
    Orchestra: Konzerthausorchester Berlin
    September 2, 2012 | Ulrichshusen (Germany) , Festspielscheune
    16.00 h
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Steven Sloane
    Orchestra: Konzerthausorchester Berlin
    August 31, 2012 | Berlin (Germany) , Konzerthaus
    20.00 h
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Bregenzer Festspiele 2012
    Conductor: HK Gruber
    Orchestra: Wiener Symphoniker
    August 6, 2012 | Bregenz (Austria) , Festspielhaus
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Kristiina Poska; Ralf Sochaczewsky, 22.11.2013
    July 2, 2012 | Berlin (Germany) , Komische Oper
    19:30 - Komische Oper Festival
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Kristiina Poska; Ralf Sochaczewsky, 22.11.2013
    June 13, 2012 | Berlin (Germany) , Komische Oper
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