Read the Fall 2023 Kurt Weill Newsletter, now online!

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)
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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E-News: October 2023
Staatsschauspiel Dresden Adapts Die Dreigroschenoper With Eye to Contemporary Relevance Jannik Hinsch as Macheath, in...
October 15, 2023 -
Stellar Singing Actors Awarded Three-Way Tie for First Place in Unprecedented Lenya Competition Result
The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music announced the unprecedented awarding of three First Prizes in...
May 02, 2023 -
A New Musical Steams up the River
The Komische Oper Berlin has launched a new family musical, powered by Kurt Weill’s music...
February 28, 2023
Upcoming Events
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December
Die Dreigroschenoper at Swedish National Theater in Stockholm
Sweden
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06
December
Die Dreigroschenoper at Theater Münster in Münster
Germany
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07
December
Die Dreigroschenoper at Swedish National Theater in Stockholm
Sweden
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07
December
Tom Sawyer at Oper Graz in Graz
Austria
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08
December
Quodlibet at Komische Oper Berlin in Berlin
Germany
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08
December
Fantaisie symphonique (Symphony No. 2) at Schleswig-Holsteinisches Sinfonieorchester in Flensburg
Germany
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December
Schleswig-Holsteinisches Sinfonieorchester - Fantasie symphonique at Schleswig-Holsteinisches Sinfonieorchester in Flensburg
Germany
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08
December
Weill Songs at To Treno sto Rouf in Tavros
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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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