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Weill’s Street Scene Returns to Dresden Semperoper

May. 01, 2012

Weill’s <em>Street Scene</em> Returns to Dresden Semperoper

Dresden Semperoper remounts its successful 2011 production of Street Scene for two performances on May 30 and June 3. The German-language production, directed by Bettina Bruinier and conducted by Jonathan Darlington, features Sabine Brohm (Anna Maurrant), Markus Marquardt (Frank Maurrant), Carolina Ullrich (Rose), and Simeon Esper (Sam Kaplan).

Weill’s “Broadway opera,” with a book by Elmer Rice (based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning play) and lyrics by Langston Hughes, blends operatic arias and ensembles, show tunes and dance numbers, jazz and blues, and dramatic dialogue. A passionate, emotionally charged portrait of family and communal life among the multi-ethnic working-class and immigrant inhabitants of a crowded New York City tenement, Street Scene centers around the life-changing events of an oppressively hot 24 hours, illuminating the tensions, despair, hopes, and dreams of this melting-pot community.

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Kurt Weill
Street Scene (1946)
an American opera in two acts
book (En) by Elmer Rice; lyrics (En) by Langston Hughes and Elmer Rice
based on the play Street Scene by Elmer Rice
singing roles: Anna Maurrant (dramatic soprano), Frank Maurrant, (bass-baritone), Willie Maurrant (boy soprano), Rose Maurrant (lyric soprano), Sam Kaplan (tenor), Abraham Kaplan (tenor buffo), Harry Easter (Broadway baritone), Henry Davis (baritone), Lippo Fiorentino (tenor), George Jones (baritone), Carl Olsen (bass), Mrs. Fiorentino (coloratura soprano), Mrs. Jones (mezzo-soprano), Mrs. Olsen (alto), Daniel Buchanan (buffo tenor), Jenny Hildebrand (soprano), 2nd graduate (soprano), 3rd graduate (mezzo-soprano), Mrs. Hildebrand (mezzo-soprano), Nursemaids (soprano, mezzo-soprano), three children, Dick McGann (singer-dancer), Mae Jones (singer-dancer); speaking roles
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