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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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    March 26, 2010 | Calgary, Alberta (Canada) , Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
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    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Leon Botstein
    Orchestra: Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra
    March 25, 2010 | Jerusalem (Israel) , Henry Crown Hall
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    The Seven Deadly Sins
    March 25, 2010 | Springfield, MO (United States of America) , Coger Theater
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    The Seven Deadly Sins
    March 25, 2010 | Calgary, Alberta (Canada) , Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium — First Night
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Lawrence Foster
    Orchestra: Orquestra Gulbenkian
    March 16, 2010 | Madrid (Spain) , Auditorio Nacional de Música, Sala sinfónica
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Lawrence Foster
    Orchestra: Orquestra Gulbenkian
    March 5, 2010 | Lisboa (Portugal) , Grande Auditório
    19.00 h
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Lawrence Foster
    Orchestra: Orquestra Gulbenkian
    March 4, 2010 | Lisboa (Portugal) , Grande Auditório
    21.00 h
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Anne Manson
    Orchestra: Manitoba Chamber Orchestra
    January 6, 2010 | Winnipeg, MB (Canada) , Westminster Church
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Paul Daniel
    Orchestra: Real Filharmonía de Galicia
    October 29, 2009 | Santiago de Compostela (Spain) , Auditorio de Galicia
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Jérémie Rhorer
    Orchestra: Ensemble Modern
    September 14, 2009 | Paris (France) , Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
    19.30 h
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Jérémie Rhorer
    Orchestra: Ensemble Modern
    September 12, 2009 | Paris (France) , Théâtre des Champs-Élysées — First Night
    19.30 h
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: James Conlon
    August 8, 2009 | Highland Park, IL (United States of America)
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Musikfestspiele Saar 2009
    Conductor: Jacques Mercier
    Orchestra: Orchestre National de Lorraine
    June 26, 2009 | Metz (France) , Arsenal
    20.00 h
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: HK Gruber
    Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra
    June 20, 2009 | Harstad (Norway) , Kulturhus, Storsalen
    18.00 h
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies
    Orchestra: Bruckner Orchester Linz
    June 6, 2009 | Paris (France) , Salle Pleyel
    20.00 h
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies
    Orchestra: Bruckner Orchester Linz
    June 5, 2009 | Linz (Austria) , Brucknerhaus
    19.30 Uhr
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    The Cincinnati May Festival 2009
    Conductor: James Conlon
    Orchestra: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
    May 22, 2009 | Cincinnati, OH (United States of America) , Music Hall
    20.00 h - Opening Night Concert
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Orchestra: Cincinnati Symphony Orhcestra
    May 22, 2009 | Cincinatti, OH (United States of America)
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Miyazaki International Music Festival 2009
    Conductor: Charles Dutoit
    Orchestra: Miyazaki Music Festival Orchestra
    May 17, 2009 | Miyazaki (Japan) , Miyazaki Prefectural Arts Center
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Johannes X. Schachtner
    Orchestra: Münchner Symphoniker
    May 9, 2009 | München (Germany) , Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Großer Konzertsaal
    19.00 Uhr - Abschlusskonzert der Meisterklasse Dirigieren
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