LONDON -- A small girl and boy play with their toys before falling asleep, and when they have done so, the toys come to life. Adventures ensue as Evil is battled, with Good duly prevailing and the toys returning to their former inert state. This is not, as you might think, ''Toy Story 17,'' but a new children's show at the Royal Opera House's...
In New York City Ballet's new production of ''The Seven Deadly Sins,'' the sins seem far from deadly, and not even strikingly sinful. Nothing is irritatingly wrongheaded about Lynne Taylor-Corbett's direction or choreography -- cynical ambivalence about these sins is built into this 1933 ballet by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill -- but nothing is...
DESSAU, GERMANY -- Despite near universal recognition of his genius, opportunities to experience works by Kurt Weill are not what they ought to be. Opera companies regularly take up ''The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny,'' a masterpiece of his German years, but it never quite fits in as a repertory piece, whether because of Bertolt Brecht's...
Kurt Weill (2. marts 1900 – 3. april 1950), tysk komponist,
bosat i Amerika fra 1935.
I 1928 skrev han "Die Dreigroschenoper" (da. "Laser og Pjalter") sammen med Bertolt Brecht, som han samarbejdede med om flere operaer, bl.a. "Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny" (da. "Byen Mahognis storhed og fald").
Har skrevet operaer, to symfonier, orkestermusik, en violinkoncert m.m.
Fra opera stammer sangen "Alabama Song" som rockgruppen The Doors indspillede en version af på albummet "Break on through (to the other side)". Også David Bowie har fremført dette nummer.