Friday, April 11, 2008

Having a Weill day


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)


Nick Cave - Mack the Knife


Ute Lemper - Je ne t'aime pas

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