Applications for the 2025 Lenya Competition Now Being Accepted!
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The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music administers, promotes, and perpetuates the legacies of German-born American composer Kurt Weill (1900-1950) and his wife, Austrian-born American singing actress Lotte Lenya (1898-1981)
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Watch the Complete 2024 Lenya Competition Finals!
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Read the Spring 2024 Kurt Weill Newsletter, now online!
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Eminent Scholar and Weill Foundation Lifetime Trustee Guy Stern Dies at 101
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Mahagonny in Amsterdam: “So strong that you wonder: why is this not standard repertoire?”
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SEASON PREVIEW: Kurt Weill Highlights Around the World in 2023/24
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The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music administers, promotes, and perpetuates the legacies of German-born American composer Kurt Weill (1900-1950) and his wife, Austrian-born American singing actress Lotte Lenya (1898-1981)
Highlights
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Ten Exceptional Singing Actors Selected as Finalists in 2024 Lotte Lenya Competition
Nicole Cabell, Jeanine Tesori, and Tazewell Thompson to serve as final round judges. Finals event...
March 25, 2024 -
Kurt Weill Foundation Advances International Roster of Rising Artists to 2024 Lenya Competition Semifinal Round
Prominent music director Andy Einhorn and charismatic soprano Harolyn Blackwell named as semifinal coach-adjudicators. $33,250...
February 16, 2024 -
Carnegie Hall Presents Five Major Weill Works (and more)
Kurt Weill’s work stands front and center in New York City during the first months...
January 18, 2024
Upcoming Events
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Weill Songs at Wigmore Hall in London
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Weill Songs at Berwaldhallen in Stockholm
Sweden
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Weill Songs at Glasgow Cathedral Festival in Glasgow
United Kingdom
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Die Dreigroschenoper at Theater Münster in Münster
Germany
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Quodlibet at Internationale Beethovenfeste Bonn in Bonn
Germany
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Weill Songs at Berwaldhallen in Stockholm
Sweden
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Fantaisie symphonique (Symphony No. 2) at Nordharzer Städtebundtheater in Halberstadt
Germany
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Fantaisie symphonique (Symphony No. 2) at Nordharzer Städtebundtheater in Halberstadt
Germany
Watch the 2023 Lotte Lenya Competition Finals
The Finals of the 25th Annual Lotte Lenya Competition brought twelve rising theatrical stars to Rochester’s Kilbourn Hall on 29 April 2023 to compete for a top prize of $25,000. The jury for the Finals included Dame Josephine Barstow CBE DBE, long recognized as one of the world’s leading singing actresses; Kyle Scatliffe, currently appearing in Hamilton on Broadway as Marquis de Lafayette / Thomas Jefferson and a 2010 Lenya Competition prizewinner; Ted Chapin, longtime President and CEO of the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization and co-founder of the Encores! series at City Center; and James Holmes, expert British conductor of opera and musical theater, with a long and brilliant track record especially in the works of Weill and Sondheim.
Read the full news story here.
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