SEASON PREVIEW: A Banner Year for Kurt Weill on Stage
new productions, important revivals, special synergies
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)
Highlights
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Six Former Lenya Competition Prizewinners In Recital at Merkin Hall
As the judges of the 2022 Lotte Lenya Competition Finals deliberated and decided who the...
May 19, 2022 -
Street Scene: Weill’s Broadway Opera at 75
Shortly before his death in 1950, Kurt Weill predicted, “Seventy-five years from now, Street Scene...
January 11, 2022 -
Lady in the Dark Shines in Vienna
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Kurier – Peter Jarolin “Lady in the Dark skillfully counteracts...
December 22, 2021
Upcoming Events
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October
Die Dreigroschenoper at Berliner Ensemble in Berlin
Germany
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04
October
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny at Opera Ballet Vlaanderen in Antwerp
Belgium
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06
October
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny at Opera Ballet Vlaanderen in Antwerp
Belgium
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October
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny at Opera Ballet Vlaanderen in Antwerp
Belgium
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08
October
Weill Songs at Renitenztheater Stuttgart in Stuttgart
Germany
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October
Die Dreigroschenoper at Berliner Ensemble in Berlin
Germany
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12
October
Die Dreigroschenoper at Berliner Ensemble in Berlin
Germany
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13
October
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny at Theater Bonn in Bonn
Germany
Watch the 2022 Lotte Lenya Competition Finals
The Finals of the 24th Annual Lotte Lenya Competition brought eleven rising theatrical stars to New York City's Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center on 6 May 2022 to compete for a top prize of $20,000. The jury for the Finals included Tony Award-winning Broadway and opera composer Jeanine Tesori, Tony Award-nominated Broadway and opera performer Phillip Boykin, and acclaimed stage director Robin Guarino.
Read the full news story here.
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