CENTRAL CITY OPERA -- THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS (2011): Clip 1 - Prologue

Glimpses of Central City Opera's 2011 production of THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS (Die sieben Todsünden).

Music by Kurt Weill
Libretto by Bertolt Brecht
Conductor: John Baril
Director: Ken Cazan
Choreographer: Ken Cazan
Assistant Director: James Darrah
Scenic and Projections Designer: Cameron Anderson
Costume Designer: Alice Marie Kugler Bristow
Lighting Designer: David Martin Jacques
Wig/Makeup Designer: Jason Allen and Ronell Oliveri
Associate Conductor: Adam Turner

CAST
Anna I: Peabody Southwell
Anna II: Sarah Tallman
Tenor I: Norman Reinhardt
Tenor II: Philippe Pierce
Baritone: Robert Gardner
Bass (Mother): Andrew Harris

Performed by the Central City Opera Festival Orchestra

Visit http://www.centralcityopera.org for more information.

Translation courtesy of Supertitlist Tom Getty:
My sister and I come from Louisiana,
Where the Mississippi flows beneath the moon, As in the old songs.
We want to go back there, the sooner the better.
(The sooner the better!)
We left four weeks ago for the big cities, To seek our fortune.
In seven years we'll have done it,
Then we'll come home.
(But better still in six!)

Our parents and two brothers
Are waiting for us in Louisiana.
We'll send them the money that we earn.
From that money, we'll build a little house On the Mississippi river in Louisiana.

- Right, Anna? - Yes, Anna.

My sister is pretty, I am practical.
She's a little crazy, but I am sensible.
We are not really two people,
But only one.
We are both called Anna.
We have one past, one future,
One heart and one savings account.
Each does only what is good for the other.

- Right, Anna? - Yes, Anna.

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• prologue
• Die sieben Todsünden

[1962folkboy]

Wish I'd been there for this one. This is my favorite Weill-Brecht work of all.... way to go CCO!! The set is gorgeous...love the slghtly faster tempo on the Prologue. Thanks for posting.