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Ensemble Modern at the Kurt Weill Fest

Mar. 02, 2016

Ensemble Modern at the Kurt Weill Fest

The annual Kurt Weill Fest in Dessau, Germany continues this month with a variety of performances in all shapes and sizes. Ensemble Modern’s highly acclaimed 2015 concert presentation of Die Dreigroschenoper returns to the festival on March 4, with Ute Gfrerer as Polly and HK Gruber conducting. Ensemble Modern also presents Weill's Mahagonny Songspiel and Kleine Dreigroschenmusik on March 5. Additional programming includes Der Zar lässt sich photographieren, Sonata for Cello and Piano and Concerto for Violin and Wind Instruments. A new production of Zaubernacht continues until the festival’s close on March 13.

And just announced: London’s National Theatre mounts a new production of The Threepenny Opera this spring. Rory Kinnear (Penny Dreadful, Spectre, The Imitation Game) stars as the quintessential antihero Macheath, with a new translation by Simon Stevens (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime), directed by Rufus Norris. Performances start May 18 and run through August 31.

For a complete listing of performances of Kurt Weill’s works coming up this month, please visit the Kurt Weill Foundation’s performance calendar at kwf.org. 

Details on the Kurt Weill Fest can be found at kurt-weill.de. 

Kurt Weill
Zaubernacht (1922)
Kurt Weill Edition (Series I, Volume 0)
edited by Elmar Juchem and Andrew Kuster
children's pantomime for solo soprano and chamber orchestra
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60' 

Der Zar lässt sich photographieren (1927)
opera buffa in one act
for 2S, 2A, 3T, Bar, B and male chorus
2.2.2.2; 3.2.2.0; piano, timp, perc; strings; on-stage gramophone (for recording of "Tango Angèle")
60’

Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera) (1928)
play with music after John Gay's "The Beggar's Opera"; in three acts
German translation by Elisabeth Hauptmann
adaptation and lyrics by Bertolt Brecht
2S, 2Mz, T, Bar, B-Bar and speaking roles
asax(fl, cl, bsax).tsax(ssax, bsn, bcl)-tpt.tbn(db)-banjo(vc, gtr, Hawaiian gtr, mandolin, bandoneon)-timp/perc (tpt 2)-harm (cel, pno)
full evening

Kleine Dreigroschenmusik (Little Threepenny Music) (1929)
suite from Die Dreigroschenoper for wind orchestra
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22’

Mahagonny Songspiel (1927)
Text (Ger) by Bertolt Brecht
English translation by Michael Feingold
2S, 2T, 2B; orchestra
2cl(bcl).asax-2tpt.tbn-timp.perc-pno-2vn
30’

Concerto for Violin and Wind Orchestra, Op. 12 (1924)
2(pic).1.2.2-2.1.0.0-timp.perc-4 double basses
33’ 

Sonata for Violoncello and Piano (1920)
23'

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