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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: Kristiina Poska; Ralf Sochaczewsky, 22.11.2013
    June 9, 2012 | Berlin (Germany) , Komische Oper
    19:30
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Antonio Saiote
    Orchestra: Orquestra de la Escola Superior de Música Porto
    June 8, 2012 | Vila Nova de Famalicão (Portugal) , Casa das Artes
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Lawrence Foster
    Orchestra: Orchestre National de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon
    May 11, 2012 | Montpellier (France) , Opéra Berlioz, Le Corum
    20.30 h
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Fabien Gabel
    Orchestra: Brussels Philharmonic - Vlaams Radio Orkest
    March 31, 2012 | Gent (Belgium) , de Bijloke
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Fabien Gabel
    Orchestra: Brussels Philharmonic - Vlaams Radio Orkest
    March 30, 2012 | Brügge (Belgium) , Concertgebouw
    Ars Musica 2012
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Fabien Gabel
    Orchestra: Brussels Philharmonic - Vlaams Radio Orkest
    March 29, 2012 | Bruxelles (Belgium) , BOZAR
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Kurt Weill Fest Dessau 2012
    Conductor: Lukasz Borowicz
    Orchestra: MDR Sinfonieorchester
    March 11, 2012 | Dessau-Roßlau (Germany) , Anhaltisches Theater
    17.00 h
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Kristiina Poska; Ralf Sochaczewsky, 22.11.2013
    March 10, 2012 | Berlin (Germany) , Komische Oper
    19:30
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Kristiina Poska; Ralf Sochaczewsky, 22.11.2013
    February 22, 2012 | Berlin (Germany) , Komische Oper
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  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Kristiina Poska; Ralf Sochaczewsky, 22.11.2013
    February 12, 2012 | Berlin (Germany) , Komische Oper — First Night
    19:30
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    February 10, 2012 | London (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , Great Hall, Guildhall School of Music and Drama
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas
    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
    February 2, 2012 | London (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , Barbican Hall
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas
    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
    January 28, 2012 | Madrid (Spain) , Auditorio Nacionale de Musica
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies
    Orchestra: Sinfonieorchester Basel
    October 27, 2011 | Basel (Switzerland) , Stadtcasino
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies
    Orchestra: Sinfonieorchester Basel
    October 26, 2011 | Basel (Switzerland) , Stadtcasino
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Ernst Theis
    Orchestra: Orchester der Staatsoperette Dresden
    September 30, 2011 | Dresden (Germany) , Hochschule für Musik, Konzertsaal
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Martin Lukas Meister
    Orchestra: Sinfonietta Darmstadt
    September 4, 2011 | Darmstadt (Germany) , Orangerie
    17.00 h
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Jessica Cottis
    September 3, 2011 | Edinburgh (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , HMV Picturehouse
    21.00 h
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Jessica Cottis
    September 3, 2011 | Edinburgh (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , HMV Picturehouse
    19.00 h
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Jessica Cottis
    September 1, 2011 | Glasgow (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , 02 ABC
    21.00 h
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