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Weill - Street Scene
Actors: Ashley Putnam, Kip Wilborn, Marc Embree, Teri Hansen, Wendy Hill
Directors: Francesca Zambello
Kurt Weill's "Broadway opera" is an amazing mélange of show tunes, arias, jazz numbers, folk songs, and spirituals, a true musical melting pot that aptly underlines the rich variety of characters th...
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The Threepenny Opera - Criterion Collection
Actors: Lotte Lenya, Rudolf Forster
Directors: G.W. Pabst
The sly melodies of composer Kurt Weill and the daring of dramatist Bertolt Brecht come together onscreen under the direction of German auteur G.W. Pabst (Pandora’s Box) in this classic adaptation of ...
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Lotte Lenya and Gisela May - Theater Songs of Brecht and Weill
Actors: Martha Schlamme, Werner Richard Heymann, Will Holt
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VAI DVD 4319 Music of Kurt Weill, Werner Richard Heyman. Special appearances by Martha Schlamme, Will Holt. 80 min., B/W/Color. 1958, 1972 performances...
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Shostakovich Against Stalin
Actors: Dmitri Shostakovich, Flora Litvinova, Graham Haley, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Valery Gergiev
Directors: Larry Weinstein
The power of art to defy and even transcend politics and oppression is the theme of Shostakovich Against Stalin: The War Symphonies, director Larry Weinstein's documentary about Russian composer Dmitr...
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Shostakovich - Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Actors: Carole Wilson, Christopher Ventris, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Ludovit Ludha, Vladimir Vaneev
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Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, a lurid tale of sex, murder, and corruption, premiered in 1934 and was a success until Stalin saw it two years later, resulting in a Pravda review that viciousl...
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Shostakovich - Cheryomushki (Cherry Town)
Actors: Grigori Bortnikov, Marina Khotuntseva, Nikolai Rabinovich, Olga Zabotkina, Vladimir Vasilyev
Directors: Gerbert Rappoport
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Britten - Albert Herring / Graham-Hall, Rigby, Opie, Kern, Palmer, Johnson, Gale, Van Allan, Hammond-Stroud, Haitink, Glyndebourne Opera
Actors: Alan Opie, Jean Rigby, John Graham-Hall
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Albert Herring, Benjamin Britten's comic opera which is gently laced with moments of farce, is a jocular parody on life in East Suffolk at the turn of the 20th century. It is a quaint, nostalgic journ...
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Benjamin Britten - The Turn of the Screw / Padmore · Milne · Wyn Davies · Montague · City of London Sinfonia · Hickox
Actors: Caroline Johnson, Catrin Wyn Davies, Diana Montague, Lisa Milne, Mark Padmore
Directors: Katie Mitchell (director)
Benjamin Britten's opera The Turn of the Screw is a masterpiece of atmosphere, ambiguity, and eerie foreboding. Britten's vocal lines mirror the characters' thoughts and feelings and his brilliant orc...
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Britten - Peter Grimes / Atherton, Langridge, English National Opera
Actors: Alan Opie, Ann Howard, Janice Cairns, Philip Langridge
Directors: Barrie Gavin
Tim Albery’s startlingly original treatment of Britten’s first operatic masterpiece, a rich and vivid tragedy, won unalloyed critical acclaim and it was hailed as a landmark in the opera’s performan...
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Benjamin Britten - In Rehearsal and Performance with Peter Pears
Actors: Benjamin Britten, Chamber Opera Orchestra, Nocturne for Tenor
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