Street Scene: An American Opera
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Performer: Creighton ThompsonPerformer: David Evan Thomas
Performer: David Thomas [bass]
Performer: Don Saxon
Performer: Lauren Gilbert
Performer: Norman Cordon
Performer: Wilson Smith
Composer: Kurt Weill
Conductor: Maurice de Abravanel
Performer: Beverly Janis
Performer: Elen Lane
Performer: Ellen Carleen
Performer: Hope Emerson
Performer: Marion Covey
Performer: Anne Jeffreys
Performer: Helen Arden
Performer: Peggy Trunley
Performer: Polyna Stoska
Performer: Zosia Gruchala
Performer: Brian Sullivan
Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Act I. Introduction And Opening Ensemble: Prelude
- Act I. Introduction And Opening Ensemble: Moonfaced, Starry-Eyed
- Act I. Introduction And Opening Ensemble: Ain't It Awful, The Heat
- Act I. Blues: I Got A Marble And A Star
- Act I. Gossip Trio: Get A Load Of That
- Act I. Arietta: When A Woman Has A Baby
- Act I. Aria: Somehow I Never Could Believe
- Act I. Wrapped In A Ribbon And Tied In A Bow
- Act I. Arioso: Lonely Home
- Act I. Scene And Song: Wouldn't You Like To Be On Broadway?
- Act I. Cavatina: What Good Would The Moon Be?
- Act I. Duet: Remember That I Care
- Act II. Introduction: Morning
- Act II. Children's Game
- Act II. Song: A Boy Like You
- Act II. Duet: We'll Go Away Together
- Act II. Choral Scene And Lament: The Woman Who Lived Up There
- Act II. Lullaby
- Act II. Finale: I Loved Her Too
- Act II. Farewell Duet: Don't Forget The Lilac Bush
Music reviews of Street Scene: An American Opera
Music Review: Street Scene: An American Musical/Opera
Rating: 4 Stars
I list this in both my Musicals and Opera.. I read a review , not of this production,, but of an operatic one , comparing it to "louise".. I'm amazed at how fast Weill adapted to the american idiom..I thinks his best work was with Brecht and Ira Gershwin.. that being said.. this is a good recording encouraging me to see,, if I can find one, a production..
Anne Jefferies,, I believe was in a revival of kismet and is georgeous..
Description of Street Scene: An American Opera
Kurt Weill harbored ambitions to compose the great American opera in the public, populist forum of Broadway, much as Gershwin did with Porgy and Bess. He did so in the 1947 Street Scene, which is a three-hour panorama of working-class American life revolving around a woman in an abusive marriage who is murdered for seeking comfort elsewhere. Weill never demonstrated a more remarkable fluency in a range of popular music style, but the piece's somewhat dated (and deliberate) sense of dramaturgy is apparent in this single disc of excerpts, performed in the comparatively reserved Broadway style of the 1940s. Though Langston Hughes's lyrics capture the Edward Hopperesque loneliness of those times, they can also be cloyingly bald. Weill's combination of pop-music manner and Puccinian operatic grandeur has since been more cohesively negotiated. However, excerpts this extensive would have been possible only in the dawn of the LP era, with cast members Anne Jeffreys, Polyna Stoska, and Brian Sullivan showing how this piece's journey started. --David Patrick Stearns( B ) CDs
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