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News and Events Volume 24 Number 1 topical Weill Spring 2006 A supplement to the Kurt Weill Newsletter Everything You Always Wanted to Know Rises and Falls &news events about The Threepenny Opera! www.threepennyopera.org—The Kurt McDonald, LuPone, and Griffey To Star in Los Weill Foundation for Music is pleased to Angeles Opera’s Mahagonny announce an entirely new website devot- ed exclusively to one of the most famous Incoming Music Director James shows in the history of musical theater, Conlon will conduct The Rise and The Threepenny Opera. Two major Fall of the City of Mahagonny as part revivals in 2006—on Broadway (Round- of his inaugural 2006-2007 season at about Theatre, premiere 20 April) and in the Los Angeles Opera. Premiering Berlin (Admiralspalast, premiere 11 on 10 February 2007, the production August)—provide a perfect opportunity will star musical theater greats Audra to highlight this legendary musical on the McDonald (Jenny Hill) and Patti web. The site includes galleries of historic LuPone (Leokadja Begbick), along posters and famous Macheaths, audio with Anthony Dean Griffey, files from interviews with Lotte Lenya and Jerry Orbach, information on acclaimed for his portrayal of the title major productions, an in-depth look at the music for the show, a calendar of character in Peter Grimes, as Jim performances, great quotes, two quizzes, a detailed synopsis, and more. Mahoney. John Doyle, LuPone’s director in the current Broadway revival of Sweeney Todd, will stage the Spotlight on Weill at the 2006 Lucerne Festival work in Michael Feingold’s English The Swiss Alps and Lake Lucerne will provide translation. The cast also includes a backdrop for three Weill evenings at this sum- Robert Wörle, the Protagonist in the mer’s international Lucerne Festival. On 26 Capriccio recording of Weill’s opera August, Ensemble Modern plays a gala survey of the same name, as Fatty. Seven of music by Weill, Eisler, and HK Gruber; the performances are scheduled, 10 Concerto for Violin and Wind Instruments February–4 March 2007. (Jagdish Mistry, violin), Öl-Musik, Suite And in Boston, Berlin, and Bern: panaméenne, and Vom Tod im Wald are among the Weill selections. The versatile Gruber will Joyce Castle, a seasoned performer of conduct, sing several Weill songs, and narrate. Weill’s catalog who has also served as On 29 August, the premiere of David Drew’s a judge in several recent Lotte Lenya reconstructed alternative version of Das Berliner Competitions, has signed on to per- Angelika Kirchschlager Requiem will take place in a concert of the form the role of Leokadja Begbick in Luzerner Sinfonierorchester; John Axelrod conducts. Die sieben Todsünden, Opera Boston’s 2007 production of with Angelika Kirchschlager as Anna I, is featured on 8 September, in a The Rise and Fall of the City of concert of the Vienna Philharmonic led by Gruber. Mahagonny. Three performances, conducted by Gil Rose and directed Opéra de Lyon Tours Weill to Edinburgh Festival by Sam Hilfrich with Amy Burton in the role of Jenny, will take place on The 2006 Edinburgh Festival has announced 23, 25, and 27 February 2007. From top: Audra McDonald, three performances of Opéra de Lyon’s double Another new production of Aufstieg Patti LuPone, Anthony Dean bill, Der Lindberghflug and Die sieben Todsünden, Griffey, and Joyce Castle und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny will on 14–16 August. The tour performances, fea- premiere at Komische Oper Berlin on 24 September 2006, turing conductor Roberto Minczuk, Kurt Streit directed by the Komische Oper’s Intendant, Andreas as Lindbergh, and Gun-Brit Barkmin as Anna I, Homoki, and conducted by Kirill Petrenko. Stadttheater follow Opéra de Lyon’s June 2006 focus on Bern opens its Mahagonny, a co-production with Sächsische Weill: the French premiere of Signé Vénus (One Staatsoper Dresden, on 30 September 2006; conducted by Touch of Venus), playing 1–11 June, the Daniel Inbal and directed by Harry Kupfer, with Noemi Lindbergh/Sins double bill (24 June–4 July), and Nadelmann (Jenny), Marjana Lipovsek (Begbick), and student performances of Celui qui dit oui (Der Hendrik Vonk (Jimmy). Jasager) on 7 and 10 June. Kurt Streit 2a Volume 24, Number 1 Topical Weill 2006 Grants Awarded Happy End, American Conservatory Theater (8 June – 9 July 2006) Professional Performances Following upon the success of its 1999 Animas Music Festival at Durango Arts Center, Zaubernacht Threepenny Opera, San Francisco’s Auckland Opera Studio, The Seven Deadly Sins American Conservatory Theater revisits the Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Street Scene Weill repertoire this spring with Happy Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Concerto for Violin and Winds End. Director Carey Perloff, also responsi- American Conservatory Theater, Happy End ble for Threepenny, takes ACT’s cast Opera North, Arms and the Cow (Der Kuhhandel) through a month-long (8 June–9 July) run of Weill and Brecht’s third collaboration at College/University Performances San Francisco’s Geary Theater. New Bulgarian University, Die Dreigroschenoper Constantine Charlotte Cohn University of Indianapolis, Lady in the Dark Kitosopolus, Royal Northern College of Music, The Threepenny Opera conductor of Baz Luhrmann’s Susquehanna University, Street Scene Broadway Bohème, has been brought in University of Central Arkansas, The Threepenny Opera as Musical Director. The cast is led by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Mahagonny Songspiel Charlotte Cohn as Lilian, Peter Macon Rutgers University, Street Scene as Bill Cracker, and Linda Mugleston as Civic Opera Theater of Kansas City, Street Scene the Fly. Playing Dr. Nakamura is veter- an character actor Sab Shimono, who Symposia was on hand for both the 1976 premiere University of Bristol, “The American and British Musical: of Sondheim’s Pacific Overtures and its An International Colloquium on Preserving the Heritage and 2004 Broadway revival. Peter Macon Exploiting the Sources,” with a session on the Kurt Weill Edition Street Scene, Opera Theatre of St. Louis Elgin Symphony Orchestra, Kurt Weill symposium entitled “How (premiere 15 June 2006) Can You Tell an American?” Opera Theatre of St. Louis presents Weill for the first time since 1980 when Street Scene opens on 15 June, conducted by Stephen The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music funds research and perform- Lord and directed by James Robinson. ance projects related to Kurt Weill and his wife, actress-singer, Lotte Carolyn Betty, who sang Anna Maurrant in Lenya. For each funding period, the Foundation accepts proposals in Wolf Trap Opera’s 2002 production of the the following categories: research and travel, symposia, publication work, will repeat her role in St. Louis, joined assistance, dissertation fellowships, college/university performance by Jennifer Aylmer (Rose Maurrant), Garrett and production, recording projects, broadcasts, and professional Sorenson (Sam Kaplan), and Jeffrey Wells news &news performance events and production. Grant guidelines, application forms, Carolyn Betty (Frank Maurrant). The company is famed for and further information on the grant program are available on the its excellent Gerdine Young Artists program, and one of this year’s Kurt Weill Foundation website (www.kwf.org) or by telephone participants, Jendi Tarde (Jenny Hildebrand), is a 2005 special (212.505.5240). prize winner of the Lotte Lenya Competition. Mackie Messer Bids Farewell to Germany’s Chancellor Threepenny Quiz What does Macheath eat for his last meal, before he is pardoned? A military band and 135 torch-carrying soldiers saluted Germany’s departing Chancellor Gerhard Schröder with a per- a. filet mignon b. asparagus formance of “Mack the Knife” at a 19 November 2005 Hanover c. knockwurst d. fish and chips parade: A descendent of which composer directed the U.S. premiere of Threepenny? “At Saturday’s Großer Zapfenstreich (grand tattoo), the Chancellor showed his typical Gerhard Schröder smile: compla- a. Arnold Schoenberg b. J.S. Bach cent, with a touch of irony around the eyes. The marching band c. Felix Mendelssohn d. Charles Ives of the Army’s Guards Battalion played Kurt Weill’s ‘Mack the Which Nobel laureate created a popular adaptation of Threepenny? Knife’ from Bertolt Brecht’s Dreigroschenoper. ‘Und der Haifisch, a. Kenzaburo Oe b. Günter Grass der hat Zähne,’ are the opening lines of the text which Schröder c. Wole Soyinka d. Harold Pinter and his guests knew by heart, as they stood in front of Hanover’s City Hall.”—Peter Ehrlich, Financial Times Deutschland (21 Stumped for the answers? Visit the “Expert Quiz” on our web- November 2005) site—www.threepennyopera.org—to find out. Topical Weill Volume 24, Number 1 3a Brandauer Stages Die Dreigroschenoper in Historic Admiralspalast, Berlin news &news events Klaus Maria Brandauer, renowned for his screen appearances in films such as Out of Africa, Oberst Redl, and Mephisto, will direct a star-studded Berlin production of Die Dreigroschenoper, set to open on 11 August 2006, three days before the 50th anniversary of Brecht’s death. Die Dreigroschenoper will re-open Berlin’s newly renovated Admiralspalast, formerly known as the Metropoltheater during the time when it was Germany’s leading operetta house in the 1920s and 30s and home to the Staatsoper unter den Linden from 1945 to 1955. Campino, lead singer of the punk rock band Die Toten Hosen, will play Macheath. Gottfried John, familiar to international movie audiences from his many Rainer Werner Fassbinder films and more Campino and Klaus Maria Brandauer at a 21 March 2006 Berlin recently from the James Bond press conference announcing the Admiralspalast production thriller Golden Eye, will be Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum; Katrin Sass, star of the hit film Goodbye, Lenin, plays Mrs. Peachum, while Birgit Minichmayr (Polly), Maria Happel (Jenny), Jenny Deimling (Lucy), and Michael Kind (Tiger Brown) round out the cast. Music director Jan Müller-Wieland will lead the Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg. Contrary to the usual German theater practice, the producers have scheduled a straight run of performances, six or seven shows a week, through 24 September.
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