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- January 2022
Lady in the Dark in Vienna — 2022 Grant Recipients — 75 Years of Street Scene — Upcoming Events - December 2021
Barrie Kosky Makes His Case — U.S. Premiere of Kleine Zaubernachtmusik — Die sieben Todsünden in Prague — Kurt Weill Prize — Upcoming Events - November 2021
Lady in the Dark Will Open in Vienna — New Podcasts on Weill and Blitzstein — Upcoming Events - October 2021
Barrie Kosky’s New Production of Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny — Lenya Competition Applications — 2021 Julius Rudel/Kurt Weill Conducting Fellow — Der Silbersee at Opera Vlaanderen — Grant Applications Due — Upcoming Events - September 2021
Andrew Polec Wins First Prize at Lotte Lenya Competition — Live Stream of Komische Oper Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny — Threepenny Opera in Berlin and Vienna — Grant Applications Reminder — Upcoming Events - Summer 2021
Lotte Lenya Competition Finals — New Productions of Die Dreigroschenoper in Berlin and Vienna — 2021 Kurt Weill/Lotte Lenya Artists — Spring Issue of Kurt Weill Newsletter — Upcoming Events - May 2021
Lotte Lenya Competition Finalists — Weill Recitals by Julia Bullock and Susan Graham — Two Virtual Weill Conferences — Grant Application Deadline — Upcoming Events - April 2021
Gruber Conducts Weill with Swedish Chamber Orchestra — Weill Feature in New York Times — Double Bill at Royal Opera House — 2021 Grant Recipients — Upcoming Events - March 2021
Lenya Competition Semifinalists — Double Bill at La Scala — Celebrating Julius Rudel’s Centenary — All-Weill Revue at Otterbein University — Upcoming Events - February 2021
Love Life “Inside the Revival” Released — Lenya Competition Judges Announced — Berlin Philharmonic Streams Weill — Weill and Copyright — Upcoming Performances - January 2021
Weill Performances Hailed as “Best of 2020” — Honoring Rebecca Luker — Application Deadlines Changed for Grants and Lenya Competition — Weill and Copyright — Upcoming Live Performances - December 2020
Seven Deadly Sins at Opera North — 2021 Lenya Competition Update — Grant Application Deadline Extended — Spotlight on Zaubernacht — Upcoming Live Performances - November 2020
Lotte Lenya Competition Songbook — Next for the Kurt Weill Edition — Weill Evening at Atlanta Opera — Online Performances — Upcoming Live Performances - October 2020
Weill Performances During Pandemic — Justice Ginsburg’s Connection to Lost in the Stars — Celebrate Lenya’s Birthday — “Inside the Revival”: Love Life at Encores! — Online Performances — Upcoming Live Performances - September 2020
2021 Lotte Lenya Competition Announcement — Resuming Live Performances — New Lady in the Dark Video — Expanded Grant Guidelines — Online Performances — Upcoming Live Performances - July-August 2020
Weill Works for Socially Distanced Performances — Weill/Lenya Artists for CLOC and Glimmerglass — More Weill Shows Licensed by European American Music — Online Performances — Upcoming Live Performances - June 2020
Kurt Weill Newsletter Announcement — Critical Edition of Happy End — Spotlight on Elisabeth Hauptmann — Online Performances - May 2020
Down To Twelve: The 2020 Lotte Lenya Competition Finalists Premieres on May 2 — Das Berliner Requiem — Mid-Year Grant Deadline Reminder - April 2020
2021 Weill Festival in Berlin — Lenya Competition Finalists Announced — Blitzstein’s Airborne Symphony — Mid-Year Grant Deadline Reminder — Upcoming Performances - March 2020
Weimar Nighfall at Los Angeles Philharmonic — Countdown to Love Life at Encores! — Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny at Dutch National Opera — Symphonic Nocturne from Lady in the Dark — Upcoming Performances - February 2020
Announcing the 2020 Lotte Lenya Competition Semi-Finalists — Rave Reviews for Street Scene at Opera North — Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Weimar Festival — Blitzstein’s Regina at University of North Texas — Kurt Weill Fest Opens in Dessau — Upcoming Performances - January 2020
Street Scene at Opera North — New Dreigroschenoper at Berliner Ensemble — Berlin Philharmonic New Year’s Concert — Premiere German Cast Recording of One Touch of Venus — Upcoming Performances - December 2019
Lenya Competition Winners in Weill-Blitzstein Double Bill — 2019 Kurt Weill Prize — Weill Exhibition in Dessau — Lenya Competition Deadline Reminder — Upcoming Performances - November 2019
Street Scene video release — 2020 Lenya Competition Semi-Finals Judges Announced — Der Jasager in the Netherlands — Reviews of Ensemble Modern/HK Gruber CD — Upcoming Performances - October 2019
HK Gruber Receives Lifetime Distinguished Achievement Award — 2020 Lenya Competition Finals Judges Announced — Harold Prince/Kurt Weill Fellow Named — Grant Application Deadline Reminder — Upcoming Performances - September 2019
New Era for The Seven Deadly Sins — Announcing the 2020 Lotte Lenya Competition — Encores! Love Life Casting — New Grant Guidelines — Upcoming Performances - Summer 2019
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny in Aix — One Touch of Venus in Dresden — Uncommon Premieres — Upcoming Performances - June 2019
Two New Productions of The Cradle Will Rock — World Premiere of New German Translation of One Touch of Venus — Hugh Jackman World Tour — Upcoming Performances - May 2019
Lady in the Dark a “Masterpiece” at MasterVoices — Upcoming Performances - April 2019 Special Announcement
- Stream the Lenya Competition Finals
- April 2019
Lotte Lenya Competition Finals — Featured Work: Lady in the Dark — Kurt Weill Festival at the University of Maryland — Upcoming Performances - March 2019
Lotte Lenya Competition Semi-Finalistss — Featured Work: Violin Concerto — Jesse Leong Named Julius Rudel/Kurt Weill Conducting Fellow — Casting for CSC Cradle Will Rock Announced — Lauren Michelle Joins Dutch National Opera Aufstieg Cast — Upcoming Performances - February 2019
Judges for Lotte Lenya Competition Finals — World Premiere of Marc Blitzstein’s Cain — Blitzstein’s Solo Piano Music: New CD — 2019 SDCF Director Fellow Appointed — Upcoming Performances — Kurt Weill Prize Deadline Reminder - January 2019
Semifinals Judges for Lotte Lenya Competition — Featured Work: Die sieben Todsünden — BMG: New Publishing Partner — U.S. Premiere of Mackie Messer: Brechts Dreigroschenfilm — 2019 Grant Recipients — Upcoming Performances - November-December 2018
New Date and Venue for Lotte Lenya Competition Semifinals — Featured Work: Der Jasager — Fall 2018 Kurt Weill Newsletter — Upcoming Performances - October 2018
Lied vom blinden Mädchen Now Available — Featured Work: The Road of Promise — Kurt Weill Festival at University of Maryland — Happy Birthday, Lenya! — Upcoming Performances - September 2018
Season Preview — Announcing 2019 Lotte Lenya Competition — “Mackie Messer: Brechts Dreigroschenfilm” Premieres in Germany — Grant Program Reminder — Reduced Orchestration of Die sieben Todsünden — Upcoming Performances - July-August 2018
New Cradle Will Rock Cast Album — Featured Work: Lost in the Stars — Mid-Year Grant Recipients — Upcoming Performances - June 2018
Raves for Blitzstein’s Regina — Featured Work: Der Silbersee — “Opera on Broadway” Panel in St. Louis — Upcoming Performances - May 2018
$99,000 Awarded at 2018 Lotte Lenya Competition — Featured Work: Mahagonny Songspiel — Grant Deadline Reminder — Upcoming Performances - April 2018 Special Announcement
- Stream the Final Concert of the Twentieth Anniversary Lenya Competition
- April 2018
Lenya Competition Finalists Announced — Featured Work: Walt Whitman Songs — 2018 Sponsorships and Fellowships — Blitzstein on the Air — Upcoming Performances - March 2018
Lenya Competition Semifinalists Announced — Featured Work: Zaubernacht — Lady in the Dark Available from Kurt Weill Edition — Weill on Screen — World Premiere Recording of Blitzstein’s “Innocent Psalm” — Upcoming Performances - February 2018
Star-Studded Street Scene in Madrid — HK Gruber Elected Honorary Trustee — 2018 Grant Recipients — “Eternal Kurt Weill” Seminar — Upcoming Performances - January 2018
Judges for 20th Anniversary Lenya Competition — Weill/Blitzstein/Bernstein Connection — Featured work: Symphony No. 2 — Upcoming Performances - December 2017
German Stage Premiere of Love Life — Lotte Lenya Competition at 20 — Kurt Weill Newsletter now available — Upcoming Performances - November 2017
Sensational Discovery of Unknown Weill Song in Berlin — November Performances — Lotte Lenya Competition Deadline Reminder - October 2017
October Performances — New Approach to Die sieben Todsünden in Atlanta — 2017 Kurt Weill Prizes — Grant Application Deadline Reminder - September 2017
Fall Performance Preview — Lotte Lenya Competition 20th Anniversary — Grant Program — Upcoming Performances - Summer 2017
Cradle Will Rock at Opera Saratoga — Summer Performances — Mid-Year Grants — Johnny Johnson in Chicago — Upcoming Performances - June 2017
Brevard “Festival within a Festival” — Blitzstein Historical Marker — Opera Saratoga Stages The Cradle Will Rock — Spring Kurt Weill Newsletter Available — Upcoming Performances - May 2017
Lenya Competition Winners Announced — 2017 Kurt Weill/Lotte Lenya Young Artist Sponsorships — Upcoming Performances - April 2017 Special Announcement
Lenya Competition Finalists Streamed Live — Teresa Stratas Will Be Guest of Honor - April 2017
Lenya Competition Finalists Announced — Weill Featured in the New York Times — April Performances - March 2017
Lenya Competition Semifinalists Announced — Past Prizewinners’ Accomplishments — March Performances — Reminder: Kurt Weill Prize Deadline - February 2017
“Lift Every Voice” Festival Triumphs — Judges for Lenya Competition Announced — 2017 Sponsorships and Grants — Upcoming Performances - January 2017
Winter Performance Preview — Manuscript of Blitzsein’s Cain Discovered — Lotte Lenya Competition Deadline Reminder — Upcoming Performances - December 2016
December Performances — Fall Newsletter Available — Lotte Lenya Competition Deadline Reminder - November 2016
November Performances — Premiere Recording of The Road of Promise — Seeking Kurt Weill Prize Nominations - October 2016 Special Report
Lauren Michelle to Appear on Fox’s Empire! - October 2016
October Performances — Blitzstein Radio Documentary — Grant Application Deadline Reminder — 20th Annual Lenya Competition Now Open - September 2016
Fall Performance Preview — 2016-17 Julius Rudel/Kurt Weill Conducting Fellowship — Announcing 2017 Lotte Lenya Competition — 2017-18 Grants Cycle Now Open - Summer 2016
Mid-Year Grant Recipients — Critical Edition of Mahagonny Songspiel Published — Upcoming Performances - June 2016
Reviews of Threepenny Opera in London — All-Weill Evening at Feinstein’s/54 Below — Weill at Summer Festivals — Upcoming Performances - May 2016
Lenya Competition Winners — Threepenny Opera in London — Blitzstein’s Airborne in San Francisco — College and University Grant Deadline — Upcoming Performances - April 2016
Grants and Sponsorships at Work — Lenya Competition Finalists — Symphony No. 2 in Philadelphia — Regina at Maryland Opera Studio — Upcoming Performances - March 2016
Official Marc Blitzstein Website — Lenya Competition Semifinalists — Threepenny Opera at the National — Upcoming Performances - February 2016 Special Report
Critical Acclaim for Lost in the Stars at Washington National Opera — Special Ticket Offer - February 2016
2016 Grant Recipients Announced — 2016 Foundation Sponsorships — Lost in the Stars Ticket Offer — Upcoming Performances - January 2016
Lotte Lenya Competition Judges Announced — Winter Performance Preview — Blitzstein Performances in 2016 - December 2015
Fall Newsletter Available — Lotte Lenya Competition Tips — Year in Review - November 2015
Weill Performances Around the World — Kurt Weill Prizes Awarded — Lenya Competition Winners on Stage - October 2015
Busy Season Ahead in Washington, DC Area — First Rudel Conducting Fellow Named — Now Accepting Applications for Lenya Competition and Grant Program — Upcoming Performances - August 2015
KWF Grant Program and Lotte Lenya Competition Accepting Applications — Salzburg Festival Wrap-Up — Fall and Winter Performance Highlights - June 2015
Lauren Michelle Reaches Finals of Singer of the World Contest — “Swept Away” Festival — Performance Highlights - May 2015
“Swept Away” Festival — Threepenny in St. Louis — Performance Highlights - April 2015
Lotte Lenya Competition Winners Announced — Weill Honored at Obie Awards — Performance Highlights: Lady in the Dark and The Road of Promise - March 2015
The Road of Promise U.S. Premiere — Lotte Lenya Competition Finalists and Judges Announced — Upcoming Performances - February 2015
Mahagonny at Covent Garden — Lotte Lenya Competition Semi-Finalists Announced — Kurt Weill Book and Article Prize: Call for Nominations — Upcoming Performances - January 2015
Kurt Weill Fest Dessau — U.S. Concert Highlights — SDC Foundation/Kurt Weill Fellowships — Upcoming Performances - December 2014
BBC documentary and New Year’s concerts — Lotte Lenya Competition Applications Due 5 January — Upcoming Performances - November 2014
Johnny Johnson at UNC-Chapel Hill — Jessica Lange Sings “September Song” — Upcoming Performances - October 2014
2015 Lotte Lenya Commpetition Now Open — Grant Applications Due 1 November — Gruber and Kirchschlager Tour Die sieben Todsünden — Upcoming Performances - September 2014
Grant Applications Welcome — Der Jasager — Featured Recording of Walt Whitman Songs — Upcoming Performances - August 2014
Season Preview: Fall Highlights — Grant Program: Fall Highlights - July 2014
Kurt Weill Foundation Expands Grant and Sponsorship Programs — Lenya Competition Featured in Opera News — Performance Highlights - June 2014
New Recording of One Touch of Venus — Lenya Competition News — Upcoming Performances - April 2014
2014 Lenya Competition Prizewinners Announced — Threepenny Opera at Signature Theatre — Upcoming Performances - March 2014
Threepenny Opera in New York — Lenya Competition Documentary Premieres on Public Television — 2014 Lenya Competition Finalists Announced - February 2014
Kurt Weill Fest Dessau Highlights — New Edition of Walt Whitman Songs — Upcoming Performances - December 2013
New Lotte Lenya Competition Documentary — Firebrand in Dresden — Spring Preview - October 2013
New Venus Recording — Kurt Weill Book Prize — Upcoming Performances - October 2013
Special Announcement: Kurt Weill Foundation Grant Program - September 2013
One Touch of Venus 70th Anniversary Celebration — 2014 Lotte Lenya Competition — Fall Preview - July 2013
Cradle Will Rock Rocks New York — Historic Threepenny Opera Recording — Upcoming Performances - June 2013
Cradle Will Rock at City Center — Recent Recordings — Upcoming Performances - April 2013
Lenya Competition Winners — LoveMusik Now Available for Licensing — Grant Program News — Upcoming Performances - March 2013
Highlights of the Kurt Weill Fest — Finalists Chosen for Lenya Competition — Zaubernacht on CD — Weill Focus in Rochester - February 2013
2013 Kurt Weill Fest — Lenya Competition News — Kurt Weill Book Prize — Upcoming Performances - January 2013
Kurt Weill Week in Berlin — Foundation Expands Grant Program — Upcoming Performances - December 2012
New PBS Documentary — Lenya Competition News — Upcoming Performances - October 2012
KWF Sponsors Weill Festival at University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music - September 2012
Fall Preview — 2013 Lenya Competition — Grant Program - August 2012
Lost in the Stars Shines at Glimmerglass - July 2012
Summer Festivals and Performances: Lost in the Stars at Glimmerglass, Zaubernacht at Ravinia Festival — Spring 2012 Newsletter on-line - June 2012
Kurt Weill Edition Releases Johnny Johnson — Lenya Competition News — Summer Preview - April 2012
Rising Stars Win 2012 Lotte Lenya Competition — Weill Songs on TV — Foundation Launches New Website — Upcoming Performances - March 2012
2012 Lenya Competition Finalists Announced — New Book on Weill’s Work Published — Upcoming Performances - February 2012
2012 Kurt Weill Fest: Hommage à Paris — Upcoming Performances - January 2012
Marc Blitzstein Music Donated to KWF — Magical Night a Holiday Hit at ROH — Spring Preview — 2012 Grant Recipients - December 2011
Royal Opera House presents UK premiere of Magic Night (Zaubernacht) — New Recordings: Simon Keenlyside: Songs of War; Stage Door Canteen — Upcoming Performances - November 2011
Lady in the Dark Dazzles in Germany — Lost in the Stars Returns to its Roots — Kurt Weill Reloaded: New Documentary Airs in Europe — Kurt Weill Edition Wins Paul Revere Awards - October 2011
Revival of Award-Winning Street Scene “Irresistible” — Teatro Real Mahagonny Now Available on DVD — 2011 Kurt Weill Prizes Awarded to Larry Stempel and David Savran — New Translation of Lady in the Dark to Premiere in Hannover — Announcing the 2012 Lotte Lenya Competition — Upcoming Performances - September 2011
2011-12 Season Preview: Fall Highlights - June 2011
First Full Recording of Knickerbocker Holiday Now Available! — Street Scene Debuts at Dresden Semperoper — The Seven Deadly Sins in New Stage Productions — Upcoming Performances - April 2011
Exceptional Talents Win 2011 Lotte Lenya Competition — Threepenny Opera Enters Repertoire of the Comédie-Française — Upcoming Performances - March 2011
2011 Kurt Weill Fest: Critical Edition of Der Protagonist Premieres in Dessau — Upcoming Performances - February 2011
In the Press: Knickerbocker Holiday and Lost in the Stars – “Mack the Knife” Documentary on BBC Radio 2 – Upcoming Performances - January 2011
Knickerbocker Holiday & Lost in the Stars Heat Up New York This Winter — Kurt Weill Edition Releases “Music with Solo Violin” - July 2010
Catch Kurt Weill’s “Youkali” on HBO’s True Blood - June 2010
Now Playing: One Touch of Venus at the Shaw Festival — Upcoming Perfomances — Lenya Competition News