About the opera Streetscene. The claustrophobic reality of living in a six-storey walk-up in the Lower East Side of Manhattan is the focus of Kurt Weill’s Street Scene. Weill, K.: Street Scene (Hollywood Bowl Performance) (1949)? Duets | Libretto List | With the neighbors all knowing everyone’s business, and constantly passing judgement on everyone’s behaviour, it is easy to see how this melting pot can quickly become dangerous. OPERA America draws on resources and expertise from within and beyond the opera field to advance a mutually beneficial agenda that serves and strengthens the field through programs in the following categories: New York City is home to the nation’s largest concentration of performing and creative artists, professional training institutions and music businesses. Gain full access to show guides, character breakdowns, auditions, monologues and more! Chappell and Company, distributed by Hal Leonard Publishing Company, Equity, Diversity and Inclusivity Resources. Arias | The neighborhood is populated by many different nationalities: an ebullient Italian, a fat, comfortable Hausfrau, a thick-headed Swedish couple, a left-wing Russian Jew, and hardened Americans who despise the foreigners. In the last scene we see two nursemaids trying to sing the babies to sleep, while at the same time gossiping about their parents; Rose meeting, for the last time, her father who has killed his wife and is being taken away by the police, and finally, Rose saying goodbye to the one she loves. Synopsis. Handicapped accessible restrooms are available on all floors. © Opera-Arias.com 2011-2019, 9 January 1947, New York (Adelphi Theater). To make matters worse, that guy keeps turning up and talking to his wife in full view of everyone. Translation(s): Not entered yet. He received the first Tony Award for Best Original Score for his work, after the Broadway premiere in 1947. A majority of OPERA America’s Professional Company Members hold or attend auditions in New York City annually, and opera leaders from Europe and around the world are regular visitors. We see, in the beginning, the women who live in the house, sitting on the steps, complaining about the heat, talking to the janitor who comes up from the cellar singing his blues song, gossiping about Mrs. Maurrant's love life, and making fun of young Buchanan whose wife is having a baby. Street Scene (Weill) Saturday, March 26, 2005 - Portland Opera. Cheshire, CT, Pericles Then we hear Mrs. Maurrant's aria expressing her troubled mind and her secret desires; the song of the young girls coming home from the graduation exercises; Sam Kaplan's song of adolescent melancholy; then Rose Maurrant's scene with her 'boss,' Mr. Easter, who is trying to lure her into a different sort of life; Rose's decision to live her own kind of life; and the scene of young love between Rose and Sam, dreaming of lilac bushes and happiness. Twenty-four hours elapse on the stoop of a Hell's Kitchen tenement as a microcosm of the American melting pot interacts with each other during a summer heatwave. The rumors about his wife having an affair have become too loud and too persistent for him to ignore. Research Playwrights, Librettists, Composers and Lyricists. Contact Yet Street Scene has never been revived on Broadway; it is fairly regularly produced by opera companies. The claustrophobic reality of living in a six-storey walk-up in the Lower East Side of Manhattan is the focus of Kurt Weill’s Street Scene. In a fit of fury and emotion, Frank carries out his threat and kills them both. Search | (Duct) Cavey Lanier Bagh amd Ele it) «--- 262 Piano Score edited by Willian Tarrasch 2) Ca? von Kurt Weill. College/University, Large Cast, Professional Opera, Disenchanted!" OPERA America serves members across the entire opera field through research, publications and services in support of the creation, performance and enjoyment of opera. Directed by King Vidor. Street Scene is a Broadway musical or, more precisely, an "American opera" by Kurt Weill (music), Langston Hughes (lyrics), and Elmer Rice (book). Jersey Boys Operas | New York, NY, Twelve Angry Men All spaces are wheelchair accessible, and modular seating can be arranged to accommodate wheelchair users for all programs and performances. With the neighbors all knowing everyone’s business, and constantly passing judgement on everyone’s behaviour, it is easy to see how this melting pot can quickly become dangerous. The New Yorker, Andrew Porter, 11-13-78; The New York Times, Bernard Holland, 9-7-90; The New York Times, Allan Kozinn, 9-9-90; The New Yorker, Andrew Porter, 10-27-79; The New York Times, John Rockwell, 11-12-78; The New York Times, John S. Wilson, 1-10-82; The New York Times, Joseph Horowitz, 10-26-79. fl, ob, 2 cl, bcl, bsn - 2 hrn, 2 tpt, 2 tbn, hrp - pf, perc - str. Street Scene is a Broadway musical or, more precisely, an "American opera" by Kurt Weill (music), Langston Hughes (lyrics), and Elmer Rice (book). All OPERA America facilities are handicapped accessible. Our work is only possible with the generous support of donors dedicated to the future of opera in America. Join StageAgent today and unlock amazing theatre resources and opportunities. Street Scene (Weill) Friday, March 14, 2003 - Eugene Opera. Of the opera, Weill wrote, "Street Scene is about life in a street of New York. Philadelphia, PA, Accessibility Statement Terms Privacy |StageAgent © 2020. Contribute | Composers | The second act opens with the morning music, the awakening of the house and the 'Children's Game,' and goes on to Mrs. Maurrant's touching song to her little son, a passionate duet of the two lovers, Sam and Rose, who have decided to take life in their own hands, and the horror-stricken death scene of Mrs. Maurrant. Street Scene (Weill) Friday, November 25, 2005 - Maine Grand Opera. Street Scene (Weill) Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - Manhattan School of Music Opera Theater. The National Opera Center features ground-level entry with elevators to the venue. Street Scene is a huge piece, with over thirty named characters, a chorus of children, and even a dog, which combines themes of racism, domestic violence, sexual assault, murder, social status, youth culture, and poverty to tell this tragic story of a man being pushed over the edge. When he returns home to find the curtains drawn mid-morning, he knows exactly what is going on. Informationen; Synopsis (de) Synopsis (it) Libretto (en) HIGHLIGHTS Occasional suggestions of jazz and blues, Gershwin and Cole Porter, Broadway numbers, and boogie woogie; contains demanding arias and ensembles. Street Scene (Weill) Thursday, June 15, 2006 - Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. Home | Synopsis: Streetscene Synopsis: Libretto: Not entered yet. Sign up today to unlock amazing theatre resources and opportunities. With Sylvia Sidney, William Collier Jr., Estelle Taylor, Beulah Bondi. It’s enough to turn anyone to drinking. Libretto: Street Scene. The opera is set in the 1930s, in front of a tenement on the Lower East Side of New York City. It was Weill who referred to the piece as an "American opera" (he also called it a "Broadway opera"), intending it as a synthesis of European traditional opera and American musical theater. To have your company’s photos included in the header rotation, send photos that are at least 1200px wide and 550px tall to. Read the full synopsis of Street Scene, 1931, directed by King Vidor, with Sylvia Sidney, William Collier Jr., Estelle Taylor, at Turner Classic Movies A New Musical Comedy - Stay-at-Home Version. How many times does he have to lay down the law in his own home before it is followed? Singers | On two scorching hot days in June 1946, the pot finally boils over for Frank Maurrant. About | Written in 1946 and premiered in Philadelphia that year, Street Scene is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name by Rice. 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