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Kurt Weill established a reputation as a leading composer in his mid-'20s. In collaboration with Bertolt Brecht he composed "Little Mahagonny" and then achieved success with "The Threepenny Opera ...
Weill’s wife, the actress Lotte Lenya (married 1926), sang for the first time in Mahagonny and was a great success in it and in Die Dreigroschenoper. These works aroused much controversy, as did the students’ opera Der Jasager (1930; “The Yea-Sayer,” with Brecht) and the cantata Der Lindberghflug (1928; “Lindbergh’s Flight,” with ...
Kurt Julian Weill (March 2, 1900 – April 3, 1950) was a German-born American composer [a] [2] active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States. [3] He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht. With Brecht, he developed productions such ...
She and Weill married on January 28, 1926. On July 17, 1927, she appeared in Mahagonny Songspiel, his settings of poems by Bertolt Brecht, in Baden-Baden. (The song cycle later was expanded into an opera, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny.) On August 31, 1928, she had a supporting role in The Threepenny Opera when it opened in Berlin.
Jan 4, 2013 · The Lives of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya. By Ethan Mordden. Illustrated. 334 pp. St. Martin’s Press. $29.99. A correction was made on. Jan. 20, 2013. : A review on Jan. 6 about “Love Song: The ...
Lenya, Lotte (1898–1981) Austrian-born actress and singer who originated the role of Jenny in the Kurt Weill - Bertolt Brecht musical, The Threepenny Opera. Name variations: Lotte Lenja. Born Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer on October 18, 1898, in Vienna, Austria; died on November 27, 1981, in New York; daughter of Franz Blamauer and ...
Apr 15, 2024 · Kurt Weill, German-born American composer who, with Bertolt Brecht, created a revolutionary kind of opera of sharp social satire. Afstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (‘Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny’) is considered his masterpiece, showing a skillful synthesis of American popular music, ragtime, and jazz.
