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Scottish Opera Revives Acclaimed Production of Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins

Jun. 25, 2013

Scottish Opera Revives Acclaimed Production of Weill’s <em>The Seven Deadly Sins</em>

Scottish Opera revives its acclaimed 2011 production of The Seven Deadly Sins at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, August 20-23. Director Kally Lloyd-Jones, who won a Herald Angel award in 2011 for her vibrant take on Weill and Brecht’s satirical ballet-chanté, sets the action in a 1930s film studio. Jessica Cottis, recently appointed Assistant Conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, conducts, and soprano Nadine Livingston and dancer Kirsty Pollack reprise their roles as Anna I and Anna II.

Sharp, sexy and bitterly sad ... From slothful ingenue to prideful artiste in a Memphis hoochie-coochie bar, wrathful Hollywood dissident to gluttonous Philadelphia pin-up, lustful Boston concubine to greedy Baltimore heiress, Anna II shows her ‘little, round, white bottom’ for money, her moral compass dissolved by the ugly reality of trading in erotic capital. Yet it is hard-nosed Anna I who is lost at the end, pimp and victim. Singing with Lieder-like poise, her gestures mirrored in Pollock’s lithe arabesques, Livingston brought pathos to her role, each word crisp over Weill’s glossy strings, wailing clarinets and prickly banjo. Under Jessica Cottis, Scottish Opera's orchestra sounded taut, slippery and glamorous.
– The Independent

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Kurt Weill
The Seven Deadly Sins (1933)
ballet chanté in nine scenes
lyrics (Ger) by Bertolt Brecht


for soprano, 2 tenors, baritone, bass, dancer and corps de ballet
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35'

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