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📣 Some Weill news for your Tuesday! This Thursday, Opera Prelude performs Weill’s iconic DIE SIEBEN TODSÜNDEN in a doubl...
08/18/2026

📣 Some Weill news for your Tuesday! This Thursday, Opera Prelude performs Weill’s iconic DIE SIEBEN TODSÜNDEN in a double-bill with Bernstein’s TROUBLE IN TAHITI. ✨🎶

“Mezzo soprano Stephanie Wake-Edwards takes on this iconic role [of Anna] as she journeys across America in search of fame and fortune, hoping to earn enough money for her family’s new house in Louisiana. Melodies soar beside dance rhythms and jazz influences ironically depicting different cities and moral encounters. “ — Opera Prelude

Head to the link in our bio to read more about Weill’s SEVEN DEADLY SINS!

Image: Opera Prelude

07/30/2026

This evening, presents A Night Of Opera Favorites, featuring “Lonely House” from Weill’s STREET SCENE, sung by tenor . 🎶

This “Broadway opera” is Kurt Weill’s most frequently revived American stage work. Fun fact: before Catherine Zeta-Jones hit the big time, she danced and sang “Moon-Faced, Starry-Eyed” as part of ’s 1989 Olivier Award-nominated production of STREET SCENE!

Here, performs “Lonely House” at in 1994. ✨

07/30/2026

This Friday, The Glimmerglass Festival, Finger Lakes Opera, Seagle Festival, and Opera Saratoga perform the final show of the regional tour of Weill’s HAPPY END! In honor of this, we present an archival Lotte Lenya performance of the show’s famed “Surabaya Johnny” on American television in 1958. 🎶🎉✨

The HAPPY END touring production was a magnificent collaboration between these four opera companies, and also featured several Lotte Lenya Competition alumni:

— Kurt Weill/Lotte Lenya Artist Ana Karneža as The Fly

— Lisa Marie Rogali as the Major

— Christine Price as Lieutenant Lillian Holiday

— Jason Zacher as Benny

Toi toi toi to the cast and crew of HAPPY END as they wrap up Weill/Brecht/Hauptmann “rich, smoky evocation of Chicago in 1919!”

07/06/2026

“Surabaya Johnny” by Kurt Weill, performed here by on Broadway as Lotte Lenya, 2007. 🎶✨

This piece is having a moment in TWO fascinating shows this summer:

🎵 LOVEMUSIK — the love story of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya, a musical by Alfred Uhry using music by Weill, performed by Theater in June

🎵 HAPPY END — Weill, Brecht, and Hauptmann’s satire play with music, performed by and at the end of July

Head to the link in our bio to learn about these two spectacular shows!

05/29/2026

sings the famous “Mack the Knife” by Kurt Weill ⭐️🎶✨

Malla stars as Mackie Navaja in ’s touring production of LA ÓPERA DE LOS TRES CENTAVOS. Directed by Mario Vega with musical direction by Miguel Malla, the production is currently enjoying an extensive tour of Spain. Its next stop will be Teatre L’Artesà in El Prat de Llobregat on May 30th!

Video: “Coque Malla “Mack the knife” | LA ÓPERA DE LOS TRES CENTAVOS | Programa “Futuro Imperfecto (RTVE)” via Barco Pirata Productions on Youtube

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This week, Kurt Weill’s musical comedy “play with music” HAPPY END is the focus of a spectacular partnership between , ....
05/27/2026

This week, Kurt Weill’s musical comedy “play with music” HAPPY END is the focus of a spectacular partnership between , .saratoga, , and .

To make things even more exciting, the production features FOUR Lotte Lenya Competition alumni. This year’s Kurt Weill/Lotte Lenya Artist plays The Fly and is joined by as the Major, as Lieutenant Lillian Holiday, and .zacher as Benny!

This week’s shows:

⭐ On May 28 and 30, the touring production lands in Saratoga Springs, NY for performances on ’s home turf.

⭐ On May 29, the show moves to in Hudson, NY.

Further performances of this Weill/Brecht/Hauptmann “rich, smoky evocation of Chicago in 1919” (Mel Gussow, 1972) will take place this July!

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In 1941, the Weill/Gershwin/Hart musical LADY IN THE DARK hit Broadway theaters with a splash, leading to a record sale ...
05/22/2026

In 1941, the Weill/Gershwin/Hart musical LADY IN THE DARK hit Broadway theaters with a splash, leading to a record sale of film rights for the show. Just a few years after the movie version premiered, Robert Russell Bennett, the highly skilled orchestrator of the film’s score, created a symphonic evolution of Weill’s themes: LADY IN THE DARK—SYMPHONIC NOCTURNE.

The NOCTURNE has recently seen a comeback, championed by a number of prominent conductors: ✨🎵

🎶 In a few weeks, .gaffigan brings the Nocturne to the on June 11, 12, and 13

🎶 led a 2019 Berlin performance, viewable with subscription to ’s Digital Concert Hall

🎶 Robin Ticciati conducted the work with this past March

🎶 .conductor led the vanguard, including a 2005 recording with the

Head to the link in our bio to learn more about this unique piece in our May E-News! ⬆️🗞️✨

★★★★ “The jewel in the crown…Gruber’s razor-sharp yet flexible interpretation drips idiomatic venom.” — The Guardian.A n...
05/20/2026

★★★★ “The jewel in the crown…Gruber’s razor-sharp yet flexible interpretation drips idiomatic venom.” — The Guardian.

A new album has arrived 🎉📀🎙 In partnership with mezzo-soprano .giunta and vocal group , HK Gruber and add DIE SIEBEN TODSÜNDEN to their unmatched discography.

The recording is a live capture of a 2025 performance at Cologne’s that crowned a series of touring engagements, triumphantly including one at New York’s the previous year.

Entitled “Dancing on a Volcano,” it also features works by composers Paul Hindemith, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and Arnold Schoenberg. The liner notes describe the works as “reflecting the tensions between artistic awakening and political upheaval – a time of creative liberation, social upheaval, and musical extremes.”

Head to the link in our bio to read more in our May E-News!

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Weill’s THREEPENNY OPERA is getting a refresh with ’s touring production, LA ÓPERA DE LOS TRES CENTAVOS! The production ...
05/15/2026

Weill’s THREEPENNY OPERA is getting a refresh with ’s touring production, LA ÓPERA DE LOS TRES CENTAVOS! The production stars in the role of Mackie Navaja, and is directed by Mario Vega with musical direction by Miguel Malla.✨🎶

The unique new production “maintains a dynamic and challenging rhythm, where black humor is intertwined with an incisive critique of capitalism and current power structures, making this production not only a stage show, but a living essay on inequality and social morality” (Sergio Vargas, CULTURAMAS).

“The action moves to a London between the wars, sunk in corruption and inequality. An abandoned slaughterhouse becomes the symbolic setting of a society where human life is processed like cheap meat.” — Teatro Pérez Galdós.

’s production heads to the Palacio Festivales Cantabria in Santander, Spain next, on May 15th! 🎭

Images: Sergio Parra; Barco Pirata Productions

Video: “Coque Malla “Mack the knife” | LA ÓPERA DE LOS TRES CENTAVOS | Programa “Futuro Imperfecto (RTVE)” via Barco Pirata Productions on Youtube

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A neglected Weill masterpiece. A disturbingly relevant opera. The announcement of the 2026 Lotte Lenya Competition final...
04/16/2026

A neglected Weill masterpiece. A disturbingly relevant opera. The announcement of the 2026 Lotte Lenya Competition finalists. Sign us up! 🎶

Current Weill performance highlights across the globe include:

🎶 Weill’s last work composed in Germany, DER SILBERSEE, in its landmark new production by , received rave reviews and was “a rapturous theatrical hybrid that’s opera, operetta, and dramatic theater all wrapped into one…” (Mitchell Oldham, Splash Magazines Worldwide).

🎶 DIE BÜRGSCHAFT, the greatest among the less-known works of Weill’s oeuvre, awaits a bold production to relaunch it into a world that has begun to look disturbingly similar to the proto-Nazi Germany of its creation. “Everything happens according to one law: the law of money, the law of power” (DIE BÜRGSCHAFT).


🎶 Ten exceptional singing actors have been selected as finalists in the 2026 Lenya Competition! The 28th annual Lenya Competition will take place on May 9th at Kilbourn Hall in Rochester, NY, and feature top prizes of $25,000, $20,000, and $15,000, as well as discretionary prizes at the $6000 level. Judges will be Olivier Award nominee and 2010 Lenya Competition prizewinner , Tony Award-winning conductor and director , and two-time Tony Award-winning composer .

Read our full April E-News at the link in our bio!

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