Street Scene

Composer: Weill, Kurt

Librettist/Text Author: Hughes, Lang.

Conductor: Murray, Tim

Orchestra: Madrid Teatro Real Orchestra

Chorus: Madrid Teatro Real Chorus

Chorus Master: Maspero, Andres

Chorus: Joven Coro de la Comunidad de Madrid

Chorus Master: Maspero, Andres

Anna Maurrant: Racette, Patricia

Daniel Buchanan: Clarke, Tyler

Dick McGann: Lamb, Dominic

Emma Jones: Schaufer, Lucy

Frank Maurrant: Szot, Paulo

Greta Fiorentino: Bern, Jeni

Harry Easter: Burkhard, Richard

Henry Davis: Greene, Eric

Jennie Hildebrand: Fontanals-Simmons, Marta

Lippo Fiorentino: Scott, Michael James

Mae Jones: Maxwell, Sarah-Marie

Rose Maurrant: Bevan, Mary

Sam Kaplan: Prieto, Joel

Set Designer: Bird, Dick

Costume Designer: Bird, Dick

Lighting Designer: Farncombe, James

Choreographer: Pita, Arthur

Stage Director: Fulljames, John

Television Director: Cuvillier, Charles

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Date of Production: 02-2018

Venue: Teatro Real, Madrid

Playing Time: 02:39:19

Catalogue Number: BAC162

UPC: 3760115301627

Synopsis

Street Scene

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A tenement on the East Side of Manhattan is our window into a multitude of precarious lives pushed to the limits. Romance, disputes, gossip mongering, betrayals, and constant tension mark the routines of this community of neighbors in the socially conscious Street Scene, the first opera Kurt Weill composed in the United States after escaping Nazi persecution. The brilliance of the music complements a sparkling libretto by Elmer Rice - an adaptation of his Pulitzer-winning play of the same name - and lyrics by legendary Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes.

Weill sought to write an "American opera" drawing on Broadway musicals, blues, and jazz, all with an eye toward the European operatic tradition-recitatives, arias, ensemble - in which he had been immersed before crossing the Atlantic. The final product lies somewhere between Weill's Threepenny Opera (a collaboration with Brecht and the origin of the famous Mack the Knife) and Bernstein's West Side Story: a masterful depiction of everyday life in a big city, brutally realistic but with a refined poetic sensibility.

Under Tim Murray's precise baton, this new production by John Fulljames, featuring a top-notch vocal cast, vividly renders the vitality and energy of the New York streets that inspired Weill's brilliant theatrical mind.