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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
    Conductor: Simon Rattle
    Orchestra: Česká filharmonie
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    Conductor: Simon Rattle
    Orchestra: Česká filharmonie
    April 10, 2025 | Praha (Tschechische Republik) , Rudolfinum
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    Conductor: Simon Rattle
    Orchestra: Česká filharmonie
    April 9, 2025 | Praha (Czech Republic) , Rudolfinum
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    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Fernando Briones
    Orchestra: Orchestra del Conservatorio de Música Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga
    March 8, 2025 | Bilbao (Spain) , Palacio Euskalduna Jauregia
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Greg Arrowsmith
    Orchestra: Orchestra of Northern Ireland Opera
    February 8, 2025 | Belfast (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , Carlisle Memorial Church
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Greg Arrowsmith
    Orchestra: Orchestra of Northern Ireland Opera
    February 7, 2025 | Belfast (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , Carlisle Memorial Church
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Greg Arrowsmith
    Orchestra: Orchestra of Northern Ireland Opera
    February 6, 2025 | Belfast (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , Carlisle Memorial Church — First Night
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Geoffrey Paterson
    Orchestra: DR SymfoniOrkestret
    November 22, 2024 | København (Denmark) , DR Koncerthuset
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Geoffrey Paterson
    Orchestra: DR SymfoniOrkestret
    November 21, 2024 | København (Denmark) , DR Koncerthuset
  • Kurt Weill
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    Conductor: Stéphane Denève
    Orchestra: New World Symphony
    October 20, 2024 | Miami Beach, FL (United States of America) , New World
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Stéphane Denève
    Orchestra: New World Symphony
    October 19, 2024 | Miami Beach, FL (United States of America) , New World
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Nathanael Iselin
    Orchestra: NRK Kringkastingsorkestret (Norwegian Radio Orchestra)
    September 6, 2024 | Oslo (Norway) , NRK, Store Studio
    Performance of excerpts.
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Simon Rattle
    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Berlin
    June 18, 2024 | Berlin (Germany) , Staatsoper Unter den Linden
  • Kurt Weill
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    Conductor: Simon Rattle
    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Berlin
    June 17, 2024 | Berlin (Germany) , Staatsoper Unter den Linden
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Peter Stam
    Orchestra: Prins Claus Conservatorium Groningen
    April 21, 2024 | Groningen (Netherlands) , De Oosterpoort
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    Conductor: Peter Stam
    Orchestra: Prins Claus Conservatorium Groningen
    April 20, 2024 | Assen (Netherlands) , Adventskerk
  • Kurt Weill
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    Conductor: Bas Wiegers
    Orchestra: Münchener Kammerorchester
    April 18, 2024 | München (Germany) , Prinzregententheater
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    Conductor: Marco Angius
    April 7, 2024 | Reggio Emilia (Italy) , Teatro Romolo Valli
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Lawrence Foster
    Orchestra: Würth Philharmoniker
    April 6, 2024 | Künzelsau (Germany) , Carmen Würth Forum, Reinhold Würth Saal
  • Kurt Weill
    The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Marco Angius
    April 5, 2024 | Reggio Emilia (Italy) , Teatro Romolo Valli
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