Kurt Weill: Street Scene [Blu-ray]

Уличная сцена - американская опера Курта Вейля, Лэнгстона Хьюза и Элмера Райса. Написана в 1946 году и впервые показана в Филадельфии в этом году. Опера основана на одноименной пьесе Райс, получившей Пулитцеровскую премию.

Kurt Weill wrote Street Scene shortly after fleeing Nazi Germany to the United States. When he discovered the vitality of the American musical scene, his focus became to reconcile the Broadway musical with European traditional opera, jazzy and North-American tunes with an almost Puccinian-like lyricism. In his mind, opera had to embrace and reclaim its own theatricality: thus he wrote his Street Scene, meant to be a truly American opera, half-way between his Brechtian Threepennys Opera and Bernsteins later West Side Story and drawing from the famous play by Elmer Rice (recipient of the Pulitzer Price when it was published in 1928). Under Tim Murrays vivid and precise baton, this superb production by John Fulljames perfectly renders the vitality and energy released by the streets of New York that proved to be a great inspiration to the theatrical mind of the composer.

HD recording: Teatro Real, Madrid | 02/2018