Weill Repertoire Ideas: Women's Voices
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Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny
Opera in three acts. Text by Bertolt Brecht, Elisabeth Hauptmann, and Kurt Weill.
Learn about this workDie Bürgschaft
Opera in three acts. Libretto by Caspar Neher and Weill, after Johann Gottfried von Herder's "Der afrikanische Rechtspruch."
Learn about this workDie Dreigroschenoper
Play with music after John Gay's The Beggar's Opera; in three acts. By Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill in collaboration with Elisabeth Hauptmann.
Learn about this workHappy End
Comedy with music, in three acts (in German). Book by Elisabeth Hauptmann ("Dorothy Lane"). Lyrics by Bertolt Brecht.
Learn about this workKnickerbocker Holiday
Musical comedy in two acts after Washington Irving's A History of New York by Diedrich Knickerbocker. Book and lyrics by Maxwell Anderson.
Learn about this workLady in the Dark
Musical play in two acts. Music and lyrics by Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin. Book by Moss Hart.
Learn about this workLost in the Stars
Musical tragedy in two acts after Alan Paton's novel Cry, the Beloved Country. Book and lyrics by Maxwell Anderson.
Learn about this workLove Life
Vaudeville in two parts. Music and lyrics by Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner. Book by Alan Jay Lerner.
Learn about this workOne Touch of Venus
Musical comedy in two acts. Book by S.J. Perelman and Ogden Nash after F. Anstey's The Tinted Venus. Lyrics by Ogden Nash.
Learn about this workStreet Scene
American Opera in two acts. Book by Elmer Rice, based on his play of the same name. Lyrics by Langston Hughes and Elmer Rice.
Learn about this workThe Firebrand of Florence
Broadway operetta in two acts. Music and lyrics by Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin. Book by Edwin Justus Mayer, based on his play The Firebrand.
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