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Kurt Weill

November 2021

  • Climate crisis umbrella

    Writing the wrongs of the climate crisis

    Letters: Meirion Bowen applauds Ben Okri’s stand, while Trevor Jones supports the wake-up call that less is more

August 2021

  • Lonely House

    Lonely House review – noir-shaded selection of Kurt Weill’s hits from exile

    Katharine Mehrling delivers the German master’s songs in ravishing style, accompanied with restraint by pianist Barrie Kosky

November 2020

  • Composite image showing Arnold Schoenberg, Claudio Monteverdi and John Adams.

    Know the score
    From Vivaldi to Vaughan Williams: more musical voices who have changed our world

  • Pacey ... l to r, Shelley Eva Haden (Anna II), Wallis Giunta (Anna I) in The Seven Deadly Sins.

    Lockdown culture
    The Seven Deadly Sins review – Hollywood highs and Depression lows with uncanny resonances

January 2020

  • Opera North’s production of Kurt Weill’s Street Scene at Leeds Grand Theatre. Rodney Vubya as Dick McGann and Michelle Andrews as Mae Jones

    The week in classical: Street Scene; SCO/ Emelyanychev – review

  • Giselle Allen as Anna and Gillene Butterfield as Rose Maurrant in Street Scene at Leeds Grand.

    Street Scene review – full justice for murder in Manhattan

October 2019

  • A scene from The Silver Lake by Kurt Weill at Hackney Empire.

    The Silver Lake/The Seraglio review – timely steps with English Touring Opera

    Mozart’s culture clash comedy is impeccably paired with Weill’s parable where poverty and privilege compete under the malign eye of the far right

April 2019

  • The cast of The Tsar Wants his Photograph Taken, with Joanna Harries third from left.

    Kurt Weill opera silenced by Nazis to be heard again after 80 years

    Comic work by German composer has been reinterpreted for modern audiences

June 2018

  • Amy Freston leads the ensemble in Berlin to Broadway.

    The week in classical: Berlin to Broadway; Le nozze di Figaro; BBC Symphony Orchestra – review

    Opera North singers take a nimble turn through Kurt Weill’s songbook. Plus, a notable debut at Nevill Holt and Mariam Batsashvili at Maida Vale

February 2018

  • Barbara Windsor: ‘This is the most fantastic theatrical part I’ve ever had.’

    Barbara Windsor opens in The Threepenny Opera, 2 February 1972

    Barbara Windsor opens in The Threepenny Opera

March 2017

  • Photo of Mary Lou WILLIAMS<br>UNSPECIFIED - JANUARY 01: Photo of Mary Lou WILLIAMS; Posed studio portrait of Mary Lou Williams leaning on piano (Photo by Gilles Petard/Redferns)

    Mary Lou Williams: Live at the Cookery review – a unique talent

    (Chiaroscuro)

November 2016

  • Fireworks light the sky above the Brandenburg Gate shortly after midnight in Berlin, Friday, Jan. 1, 2016. Hundred of thousands of people gathered for the New Year celebrations, welcoming the new year 2016 at the area around the Brandenburg Gate in the capital of Germany. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

    Music blog
    A musical tour of Europe's great cities: Berlin

    Our series ends in Berlin, the classical music lover’s dream destination, with Berg, Busoni, Bowie and Bernstein.

July 2016

  • ‘Mesmerising’ … Barry Humphries and Meow Meow revel in their Weimar Cabaret.

    Barry Humphries' Weimar Cabaret review – sardonic, sexual, wonderfully done

    In the company of Meow Meow and a raffish Australian Chamber Orchestra, Humphries reveals a lifelong love for music the Nazis banned as ‘degenerate’

June 2016

  • Rory Kinnear and Rosalie Craig in The Threepenny Opera.

    The Threepenny Opera review – cartoon counterfeit runs out of juice

    A new translation fails to hit its satirical targets but still makes for a good musical

May 2016

  • Haydn Gwynn (Mrs Peachum) and Nick Holder (Mr Peachum) in The Threepenny Opera at the National Theatre.

    A cheap take on The Threepenny Opera

    Letters: How this barbed satire might have resonated with today’s bankers’ millions. Instead we get Peachum as ‘a louche figure in high heels’

April 2015

  • The Julia Hülsmann quartet with Theo Bleckmann.

    Julia Hülsmann Quartet/Theo Bleckmann: A Clear Midnight review – curiously compelling take on Kurt Weill

    Pianist Julia Hülsmann and singer Theo Bleckmann collaborate to intriguing effect on this collection of Kurt Weill songs

March 2015

  • Laura Mvula at the 2014 Love Supreme jazz festival

    The playlist
    The playlist: jazz – Miles Davis, Gregory Porter, Laura Mvula and more

  • mahagonny royal opera

    Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny; Alice in Wonderland; Jeremy Denk/ Academy of St Martin in the Fields – review

  • Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

    Will Self: ‘Opera remains the preserve of the rich’

  • Theo Bleckmann and Julia Hülsmann

    Julia Hülsmann Quartet/Theo Bleckmann: A Clear Midnight CD review – great jazz treatments of Kurt Weill songs

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