At Carnegie Hall, Weimar Is Irresistible but Vaguely Defined Posted by By Zachary Woolfe April 14, 2024Posted inAntheil, George, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Brecht, Bertolt, Carnegie Hall, Classical Music, Cleveland Orchestra, Ensemble Modern, Gruber, H K, Hindemith, Paul, Knights, The, Korngold, Erich Wolfgang, Krenek, Ernst, Lemper, Ute, Mahler, Gustav, Music, Schoenberg, Arnold, Stravinsky, Igor, Vienna Philharmonic, Weill, Kurt, Zemlinsky, Alexander Carnegie’s intermittently illuminating festival “Fall of the Weimar Republic” has suffered from interjections of too much standard repertory.
Vienna Volksoper Pushes Boundaries With Its ‘Threepenny Opera’ Posted by By David Belcher December 23, 2022Posted inBrecht, Bertolt, de Beer, Lotte, Lenhard, Maurice, Music, Theater, Vienna (Austria), Volksoper, Weill, Kurt Starting with “The Threepenny Opera,” the Volksoper in Vienna is reconsidering a series of works and inviting audiences to join the discussion.
America Needs Its Own Comic Opera Company Posted by By Seth Colter Walls December 23, 2022Posted inBolcom, William, Davis, Anthony (1951- ), Komische Oper Berlin, Music, Opera, Opera Comique, Weill, Kurt There is no house in the United States dedicated to presenting works from a prominent corner of homegrown music theater repertory.