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Kurt Weill's The Flight of Lindbergh with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

Sep. 08, 2016

Kurt Weill's <em>The Flight of Lindbergh</em> with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

The 2016/17 season offers many exciting performances of Kurt Weill’s music, featuring works known and unknown, performed by the world’s leading ensembles and soloists.

The season gets off to a flying start on September 16 and 17 when the St. Louis Symphony presents Weill and Brecht’s rarely performed cantata The Flight of Lindbergh (Lindberghflug) on their season opening concert. Music Director David Robertson leads the orchestra on a program which commemorates the 90th anniversary of Charles Lindbergh’s historic transatlantic flight. The Flight of Lindbergh is right at home in the city which lent its name to Lindbergh’s plane, the Spirit of St. Louis.

Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins can be seen on stages and in concert halls around the world this season, beginning with seven performances by the Virginia Opera, September 30 through October 16. Music director Adam Turner leads the performances in a production directed by Keturah Stickann, starring Ute Gefrerer as Anna I and Gabrielle Zucker as Anna II.

This is followed by two performances in the UK—first with the BBC Scottish Symphony in Glasgow on October 20, with conductor Ilan Volkov and Measha Brueggergosman singing Anna I; and the BBC Symphony Orchestra in London, November 23, James Gaffigan conducting and Storm Large as Anna I. Several more concert and staged presentations are still to come in the winter and spring.

The Threepenny Opera continues its run at London’s National Theatre, through October 1, and will be broadcast to movie theatres around the world beginning on September 22. To find a screening at a theater near you, visit the NT Live website.

For more information on Kurt Weill, and to find a complete list of performances coming up this season, visit kwf.org.

Kurt Weill
The Flight of Lindbergh (Lindberghflug) (1929)
cantata for tenor, baritone and bass soloists, SATB chorus and orchestra
text (Ger) by Bertolt Brecht
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35’

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
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35' 

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
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full evening     

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