(Photo Credit: Javier del Real) BelAir Media is set to showcase the Teatro Real de Madrid’s 2018 stage production of Kurt Weill’s “Street Scene” via BroadwayHD on August 8, 2019. The media company will present this historic performance this August, which was directed for TV by Jérémie Cuviller and recorded on February 14 and 16, 2018. Those performances featured music {…}
On April 2, 2019, The New Generation Festival held its annual fundraising gala, this time at New York City’s historic Players Club. Founded by Edwin Booth, the club has sought over the centuries to connect performers with the people to share and advance in their love of the arts; among the stunning portraits are hidden some truly fascinating pieces of {…}
MasterVoices will conclude its 2018-19 season with the world premiere of a new adaptation of Kurt Weill, Ira Gershwin, and Moss Hart’s musical “Lady in the Dark.” Performances will be held at New York City Center on Apr. 25-27, 2019 as part of the venue’s 75th anniversary season. The musical, directed and conducted by MasterVoices Artistic Director Ted Sperling, will {…}
The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music has announced the finalists of its 2019 Lotte Lenya Competition. The 13 performers chosen to compete on April 13, 2019, include Carolyn Bacon, Danielle Beckvermit, Daniel Berryman, Timothy Bruno, Jonathan Heller, Jonah Hoskins, Trevor Martin, Florian Peters, Katherine Riddle, Nyla Watson, Amy Weintraub, Jeremy Weiss, and Andrea Wozniak. Of the finalists, Peters, who hails {…}
“The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny” is a famed work by composer Kurt Weill with a libretto by Bertolt Brecht. The opera had its world premiere on March 9, 1930, in Leipzig and played in Berlin the following year. It would eventually be banned by the Nazis and virtually became forgotten until the 1960s. It has since {…}