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BAM Next Wave Festival Features The Threepenny Opera; Lady in the Dark Premieres in Hannover

Oct. 05, 2011

BAM Next Wave Festival Features The Threepenny Opera; Lady in the Dark Premieres in Hannover

The acclaimed Berliner Ensemble/Robert Wilson production of The Threepenny Opera comes to the Brooklyn Academy of Music October 4-8 as part of the 2011 Next Wave Festival, marking the U.S. premiere of this production and the New York debut for the Berliner Ensemble. BAM describes Wilson’s bold setting of the seminal Weill-Brecht work as being “informed equally by the striking designs of German Expressionist cinema and the shattering, seductive world of Weimar-era cabaret.” Music direction is by Hans-Jörn Brandenburg and Stefan Rager and the production is performed in the original German with English surtitles.

John Rockwell, former chief dance and music critic for The New York Times, will discuss The Threepenny Opera in an Artist Talk at BAM on Saturday, October 8 at 5 pm.

“The finest, most felicitous and fresh production of this classic given anywhere.”

—Welt am Sonntag

Shortly after this major US premiere production of Weill’s most popular German work, one of Weill’s biggest American hits, Lady in the Dark, premieres in a new German translation at Staatsoper Hannover. Directed by Mattias Davids, with music direction by Mark Rohde and German text by Roman Hinze, the production opens October 15 and runs in repertory through March 21, 2012.

Lady in the Dark, with a book by Moss Hart and lyrics by Ira Gershwin, took Broadway by storm in 1941 with its cutting-edge investigation of psychotherapy and its elaborate dream sequences. The arresting Weill-Gershwin score includes such classics as “My Ship”, “The Princess of Pure Delight,” and “The Saga of Jenny.” A 1997 production at London’s National Theatre won the Evening Standard Award for Best Musical.

An orchestral concert suite from Lady in Dark is available for licensing.

Visit BAM: www.bam.org for details on the production of The Threepenny Opera

More on Lady in the Dark at Staatsoper Hannover can be found at www.staatstheater-hannover.de.

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
two sopranos, two mezzo-sopranos, tenor, baritone, bass-baritone and speaking roles
alto sax (fl, cl, bar. sax).ten. sax (sop. sax, bn, bass cl)-tpt.tbn (double bass)-banjo (cello, guitar, Hawaiian guitar, mandolin, bandoneon)-timp/perc (tpt 2)-harmonium (celesta, piano)
full evening

Symphonic Nocturne from Lady in the Dark
Concert suite arranged by Robert Russell Bennett
2(pic).2(ca).3(bcl).2-4.3.3.1-hp.cel(or piano)-tim.perc-str
17’

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