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Weill’s Street Scene Debuts at Dresden Semperoper

Jun. 02, 2011

Kurt Weill’s first opera, Der Protagonist, premiered at the Dresden State Opera in 1926. Eighty-five years later and sixty-five years after its creation for Broadway, Street Scene debuts at Dresden’s Semperoper, the first of Weill’s American works ever to be presented there. Street Scene opens on June 19 for a seven-performance run ending July 3, in a German-language production conducted by Jonathan Darlington and directed by Bettina Bruinier, with a cast including Sabine Brohm (Anna Maurrant), Markus Marquardt (Frank Maurrant), Carolina Ullrich (Rose), and Simeon Esper (Sam Kaplan). The production returns early in the 2011-12 season for performances on August 26, September 23 and 27. To coincide with the production of Street Scene, from 15 May to 13 July the Semperoper and Staatsschauspiel Dresden present an exhibition entitled “Silenced Voices: The expulsion of the Jews and the politically unacceptable from Dresden’s theaters from 1933 to 1945.”

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Kurt Weill
Street Scene (1946)
an American opera in two acts
book (En) by Elmer Rice; lyrics (En) by Langston Hughes and Elmer Rice
based on the play Street Scene by Elmer Rice
singing roles: Anna Maurrant (dramatic soprano), Frank Maurrant, (bass-baritone), Willie Maurrant (boy soprano), Rose Maurrant (lyric soprano), Sam Kaplan (tenor), Abraham Kaplan (tenor buffo), Harry Easter (Broadway baritone), Henry Davis (baritone), Lippo Fiorentino (tenor), George Jones (baritone), Carl Olsen (bass), Mrs. Fiorentino (coloratura soprano), Mrs. Jones (mezzo-soprano), Mrs. Olsen (alto), Daniel Buchanan (buffo tenor), Jenny Hildebrand (soprano), 2nd graduate (soprano), 3rd graduate (mezzo-soprano), Mrs. Hildebrand (mezzo-soprano), Nursemaids (soprano, mezzo-soprano), three children, Dick McGann (singer-dancer), Mae Jones (singer-dancer); speaking roles
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