Detroit Opera will present William Grant Still’s Highway 1 USA (above), Dec. 7–13, on a double-bill with Kurt Weill’s Down in the Valley. LA Opera photo by Cory Weaver DETROIT, Dec. 02, 2025 (GLOBE ...

But it works handsomely. Veteran director Giles Havergal’s hands-off approach would surely have pleased Weill’s testy collaborator Brecht. And having the songs accompanied, superbly, by Martin Pickard ...

DOUBLE BILL: LES MAMELLES DE TIRÉSIAS + MAHAGONNY SONGSPIEL Music by Francis Poulenc; Libretto by Guillaume Apollinaire (Les ...

The Detroit Opera House kicks off its season with two rarely seen operas: William Grant Still's 'Highway One USA' and Kurt Weill's 'Down in the Valley.' ...

Carnegie’s intermittently illuminating festival “Fall of the Weimar Republic” has suffered from interjections of too much standard repertory. By Zachary Woolfe At Carnegie Hall, a program of ...

I have covered enough arts openings to know when a company is simply launching a season and when it is trying to make a statement. Detroit Opera’s choice this year felt like the latter. Detroit ...

One summer night in 1928, first nighters crowded into a Berlin theater to see Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), composed by a young highbrow named Kurt Weill on a text by a proletarian poet ...

Smithsonian Collection of Recordings: RC 048-17 (Sony: PT 23954). Excerpts from musicals and operas. Program notes by James R. Morris.

Brian Stokes Mitchell, Kate Baldwin and other top-shelf singers star in an overly sentimental production of the long-lost Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner show. By Elisabeth Vincentelli Kurt Weill and ...