30 min
Weimar Nightfall: The Seven Deadly Sins with Kristi Brown-Montesano & Gerard McBurney • THU / FEB 13, LA Phil 2019/20 Upbeat Live
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- Music
Widely acclaimed English actor/writer/director Simon McBurney and his equally accomplished brother, composer/writer/scholar Gerard McBurney, collaborate with Salonen to present darkly satirical musical-theater works from the heyday of German Expressionism. The music is inflected with 1920s jazz and popular song, along with an edge of cynicism.
Program:
HINDEMITH Murderer, Hope of Women
WEILL/BRECHT The Berlin Requiem
WEILL/BRECHT The Seven Deadly Sins
Widely acclaimed English actor/writer/director Simon McBurney and his equally accomplished brother, composer/writer/scholar Gerard McBurney, collaborate with Salonen to present darkly satirical musical-theater works from the heyday of German Expressionism. The music is inflected with 1920s jazz and popular song, along with an edge of cynicism.
Program:
HINDEMITH Murderer, Hope of Women
WEILL/BRECHT The Berlin Requiem
WEILL/BRECHT The Seven Deadly Sins
30 min