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Kurt Weill at Edinburgh, BBC Proms, Tanglewood and Beyond

Jul. 08, 2016

Kurt Weill at Edinburgh, BBC Proms, Tanglewood and Beyond

Kurt Weill’s music makes appearances at festivals around the world this summer. The Edinburgh International Festival in August brings together several artists performing the songs of Kurt Weill. Film, television and stage actor Alan Cumming (The Good Wife, Cabaret) takes his cabaret evening “Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs” to the Festival for a three-week run (August 6-27). Cumming’s show includes “What Keeps Mankind Alive?” from The Threepenny Opera. Prior to his Edinburgh appearances, Cumming takes his show on tour throughout the US, visiting cities from Texas to the West Coast and Massachusetts, with many stops in between.

Baritone Simon Keenlyside will also appear at the Edinburgh Festival, performing Weill songs on August 11. Australian cabaret artist Meow Meow performs Weill with the Australian Chamber Orchestra in Barry Humphries’ Weimar Cabaret (August 8-9). The ACO’s tour also brings this program to London’s Cadogan Hall from July 29-August 3, and the Tanglewood Festival, in Lenox, Massachusetts, on August 14.

Several other notable summer festivals feature Weill: In London, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, with HK Gruber as vocal soloist, perform selected songs from The Threepenny Opera and Mahagonny at a BBC Proms Chamber Music concert on August 8. On July 8, Ute Lemper presents her song evening “Last Tango in Berlin” at the Kölner Sommerfestival. Lemper repeats the program on July 15 at the Spiegeltent at Bard SummerScape in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. International opera star Deborah Voigt presents “An Afternoon of American Song”, including songs by Weill, at the Glimmerglass Festival on August 5. The National Youth Orchestra of the Netherlands performs Die Sieben Todsünden at the Delft Chamber Music Festival, August 6. Tanglewood Music Center, the prestigious training program at the Tanglewood Festival, presents a semi-staged production of The Seven Deadly Sins, August 8.

For more information on upcoming Kurt Weill activity, visit kwf.org.

Kurt Weill
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

Aufsteig und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (1927/29)
opera in three acts
text (Ger) by Bertolt Brecht
English translation by Jeremy Sams
S, Mz, 3T, 2Bar, B; chorus and orchestra
2(2pic)1.1.ssax.asax.tsax.2(cbsn)-2.3.2.1-perc.timp-pno.harm ad lib.banjo.bass gtr.bandoneon-str
Stage orchestra: 2(2pic).2.3sax(ssax, asax, tsax).2-2.2.2.1-perc-pno.zither or xyl.banjo.bandoneon-3 vn
full evening 

Die sieben Todsünden (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
2(2pic).1.2.1-2.2.1.1-timp.perc-hp.pno.bnj(gtr)-str


35'

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