Winners of the 2025 Lenya Competition Announced!
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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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Love Life “Terrific” in its Return to New York
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“Extraordinary” Love Life Triumphs at Opera North
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Kurt Weill Newsletter, Volume 42, Number 2 now online!
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WEILL AT 125: A First Six Months of Celebrations
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Kurt Weill Edition Love Life Editor Joel Galand Wins Preeminent Award
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Watch the Complete 2024 Lenya Competition Finals!
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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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E-News: November 2024
“Mack The Knife” Back on Broadway, Just in Time. Tony Award winner Jonathan Groff (Merrily...
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E-News: October 2024
The Cradle Will Rock “… when you go to the polls” The cast of the...
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E-News: July-August 2024
Deutsche Grammophon Releases All-Weill Recording: Joana Mallwitz Conducting Weill’s Two Symphonies and Die sieben Todsünden Joana...
August 08, 2024
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Die sieben Todsünden, Mahagonny Songspiel, and Happy End at Teatro alla Scala in Milan
Italy
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Tom Sawyer at Komische Oper Berlin in Berlin
Germany
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Weill Songs at 54 Below in New York, NY
United States
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Die sieben Todsünden, Mahagonny Songspiel, and Happy End at Teatro alla Scala in Milan
Italy
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27
May
Tom Sawyer at Komische Oper Berlin in Berlin
Germany
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May
Weill Songs at 54 Below in New York, NY
United States
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May
Die Dreigroschenoper at Theater Bonn in Bonn
Germany
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Die Dreigroschenoper at Staatstheater Nürnberg in Nuremberg
Germany
Watch the 2024 Lotte Lenya Competition Finals
The 2024 Lenya Competition Finals showcased ten exceptional singing actors in Rochester, NY's Kilbourn Hall on 4 May 2024, each vying for a top prize of $25,000. This year’s finalists, representing four countries, show they can “do it all” by presenting four contrasting theatrical songs and arias. The jury for the finals included 2005 Cardiff Singer of the World and Lenya Competition prizewinner, Nicole Cabell, two-time Tony Award-winning Broadway and opera composer Jeanine Tesori, and acclaimed stage director and playwright, Tazewell Thompson.
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