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Ten Days of Weill at Three Berlin Institutions

Apr. 01, 2020

Ten Days of Weill at Three Berlin Institutions

Berlin is already abuzz with plans for next season, when the Komische Oper will collaborate with the Berliner Ensemble and the Berlin Philharmonic on a Kurt Weill festival the likes of which the city has not seen in years, harking back to the observation of his centenary in 2000 or the 1975 Berliner Festwochen. For ten days in February 2021, Germany’s capital hosts stage productions, concerts, and a symposium, including new stagings, revivals, and a new version of an existing work. The celebration will be a worthy successor to the "Berlin im Licht" festival of 1928, in which Weill participated–in fact, the organizers have adopted that same title for the 2021 festivities.

The Weill stage works included in the festival are Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny at Komische Oper Berlin and Die Dreigroschenoper at the Berliner Ensemble, both in new productions directed by Barrie Kosky, and a concert performance of Der Silbersee at Komische Oper and Berliner Ensemble conducted by HK Gruber. The Komische Oper will also launch as part of their programming for family audiences a new version of Tom Sawyer, a work derived from Weill’s unfinished adaptation of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. 

Visit the Kurt Weill Foundation’s website for an in-depth introduction to the festival.


(Exerpt from Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny/Oper Köln/
Katharina Thalbach, director/Lothar Koenigs, conductor)

To learn more about Kurt Weill, please visit kwf.org

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