Kurt Weill - The Seven Deadly Sins-- "Stolz / Pride"

Teresa Stratas ... Anna I
Nora Kimball ... Anna II

Kent Nagano conducts the Orchestra of the Lyon Opera
Peter Sellars directs. 1993

the nine parts of the ballet/opera, and the US city each takes place in:

1--Prologue
2--Faulheit / Sloth (city not mentioned)
3--Stolz / Pride (Memphis)
4--Zorn / Wrath (Los Angeles)
5--Völlerei / Gluttony (Philadelphia)
6--Unzucht / Lust (Boston)
7--Habsucht / Greed (Tennessee, in posthumous versions Baltimore)
8--Neid / Envy (San Francisco)
9--Epilogue (home, in the new little house)

Category:

Music

Tags:

• brecht
• lyon
• nagano
• sellars
• stratas
• Todsünden
• weill

[sharonmary]

WoW! A truly amazing production of a truly amazing work. Thanks for posting this!

[mirocchi]

Thanks so much for posting it. Please give us more!!!

[QueryMeThis]

@1sabineMai Nobody's makin' you listen to 'em.

[1sabineMai]

@hilhorst234

You are completely right - great Opera-voices are inhuman, laughable, not to understand (not here), mindfuck of brainless conservative music science. In history there was some justification for loud, room filling voices, but today it is an idioty. They stll are fixed on historical restrictions. But that is not all - this idiotc manirism on the opera stage, where a fat crying idiot is dying 10 minutes long because of any shit, shows how perverted this is.

[bumblebert]

I love Marianne Faithfulls version. Played loud through the surround system. Clears the cobwebs!!!x

[ReignOfPraine]

Very strange... and erotic...

[anemone9]

I'll bite.

How can a short clip, presented without context and from a production conceived long after Brecht's death, reflect on Brecht in any way?

[whizbang47]

Kulinarisch, as Brecht would say with disgust. No wonder Black Bourgeois Nationalist writers label Brecht a white establishment playwright. It isn't remotely true and productions like this one are lies. Bonbons for snob daughters of little Stalins.

[crystalspears]

utter guff they have no love for this music it could be fooking cats...or some low brow mince

[Rawego]

that performance was, well, half assed :))

[Rawego]

cat fight!!!! :))

[hilhorst234]

I can't get used to hear it sung with great Opera-voices..... The original has smaller voices, more raw, less vibrato. Fits the setting better for me.

But beautiful all the samen, thanks for posting it!