STREET SCENES (Weill) Documentary Bobigny 2024 Académie de l’Opéra national de Paris

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Street Scenes based on Street Scene  
• Composer: Weill Kurt  
• Libretto: Elmer Rice  
• Venue & Opera Company: Oleg Efremov Hall, MC93 in Bobigny, France, Opera de Paris  
• Recorded: April 2024
• Type: Other
• Singers: Académie de l'Opéra national de Paris
• Conductor: Yshani Perinpanayagam  
• Orchestra:
• Stage Director: Ted Huffman  
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Paris Opera Play  
• Date Published: 2024  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  Fragments from the 1948 Broadway Opera Street Scene

  A jealous husband, a mother of three who can no longer pay her rent, an old Jewish communist, young lovers… Street Scenes depicts the inhabitants and dramas of a dilapidated New York building on a scorching hot day. By setting to music the play by playwright Elmer Rice, Kurt Weill reveals the tragedy inherent in the daily life of middle-class New Yorkers between the two wars. Having moved to the United States in 1935 to flee Nazism, the composer created an “American opera” in 1947 that merges European influences and the Broadway musical in a fluid score.

  This new production of Street Scenes, performed by the singers of the Académie de l’Opéra national de Paris, is presented at the MC93 and represents a new stage in a long-standing partnership between the two institutions. A children’s choir will be formed in collaboration with the conservatories of Seine-Saint-Denis especially for this creation led by conductor Yshani Perinpanayagam and staged by Ted Huffman.

  With the Academy of the Paris National Opera

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