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Sep 19, 2014 · Discover Kurt Weill: Meisterwerke by Lotte Lenya released in 2014. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
In the German-speaking and classical music world, she is best remembered for her performances of the songs of her first husband, Kurt Weill. In English-language cinema, she was nominated for an Academy Award for her role as a jaded aristocrat in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961).
Lenya meets Kurt Weill as she struggles to establish a career as an actor. After they marry, she performs in his collaborations with Bertolt Brecht, notably the world premiere of Die Dreigroschenoper. Her success in that production leads to several roles in major Berlin theaters.
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Apr 29, 2007 · In the late 1920s, after the popular success of such shows as The Threepenny Opera, composer Kurt Weill and actress Lotte Lenya were Berlin's artistic power couple. But within a few years,...
An unconventional marriage. It wasn’t long before Lotte Lenya moved in with Kurt Weill in his tiny flat on Berlin’s Luisenplatz, and they married at the end of January 1926, much to the dismay of Weill’s pious parents. “She’s a terrible housewife. But a very good actress,” quipped the husband.
Lotte Lenya emigrated to America with her husband Kurt Weill in 1935. Over the next 19 years, she appeared on Broadway in two short-lived Weill musicals (which ran a combined total of six months)...
The Lotte Lenya Competition. The Lotte Lenya Competition recognizes talented singer/actors of all nationalities, ages 19-32, who are dramatically and musically convincing in repertoire ranging from contemporary Broadway scores to opera/operetta, including the works of Kurt Weill.
