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Love Life's Remarkable Renaissance: Two More Milestones

Feb. 28, 2025

The remarkable renaissance of Love Life continues apace. With the Opera North production garnering near-unanimous critical acclaim in the UK in January, and with the opening of the Encores! production at New York’s City Center less than a month away, the reborn work reached two further significant milestones in recent weeks. 

On Saturday, February 22, the British Broadcasting Corporation gave Love Life its first radio broadcast in decades, over seventy-five years after its Broadway opening. BBC Radio 3 aired a live recording of the Opera North production captured during the run in Leeds in January. Hosts Mark Forrest and Emily MacGregor introduced the broadcast, which also featured recorded remarks by stage director Matthew Eberhardt and music director James Holmes. On-demand streaming is available worldwide at this link until March 23. A CD release, another first for Love Life, will follow on Capriccio in the fall. A video release is also contemplated.

Given the tangled and uneven publication history of Weill's works, it isn't surprising that for three quarters of a century no complete score of Love Life was ever published.  In 2023, a critical edition of the full score, edited by Joel Galand, appeared as part of the Kurt Weill Edition project and subsequently received two major awards, from the Music Publishers Association of the USA and also from the American Musicological Association. Now, another first: a brand new vocal score of the work, published by Kurt Weill Music, is available for sale. With piano reduction and instrumental cueing by John Baxindine, the score is in the final phases of printing and is available now for presale through Hal Leonard. The new vocal score matches the critical edition of the full score and includes all of the performable music from the show. An editorial note, plot synopsis, table of musical contents, vocal ranges of performers, and cast list of the original Broadway production all precede the 381(!) pages of printed music.  

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