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 ...

RUFUS WAINWRIGHT has never been an artist to repeat himself. With a diverse back catalogue, the Canadian singer’s latest ...

Over the length of its 81st festival season, the Brevard Music Center (BMC) will host myriad concerts and special events celebrating the legendary 20th century composer Kurt Weill. This extraordinary ...

In honor of revolutionary composer Kurt Weill’s 125th birthday this year, acclaimed singer & actress Ute Lemper has announced her new album, Pirate Jenny, out April 25 via The Audiophile Society.

The German-born cabaret performer’s latest album celebrates the 125th anniversary of Kurt Weill’s birth, yoking classics to the language of today’s music. By Elysa Gardner Brian Stokes Mitchell, Kate ...

Wainwright Does Weill, a new tribute album that explores the songbook of German-American composer Kurt Weill. Listen to it ...

Rufus Wainwright has long expressed his admiration for “pop music with an operatic sensibility, the profane with the divine”, ...

Working from the premise that music is a universal language with the power to bring people together, pianist Roberto Magris formed the Europlane Orchestra (actually a septet), three of whose members ...

On his first two albums under his own name, London-based alto saxophonist Sam Braysher focused on the Great American Songbook. On this, his third album, he takes a sideways look at mid-twentieth ...

We check in with the polymathic singer-songwriter about his forthcoming ‘I’m a Stranger Here Myself’ ahead of a two-show ...

Lotte Lenya owned Kurt Weill’s music long before she became his widow. Her ravished soprano perfectly matched the temper of his Berlin theater songs—tough, bragging, wicked, hopeless—and no one could ...

Street Scene is a Broadway musical or, more precisely, an "American opera" by Kurt Weill (music), Langston Hughes (lyrics), and Elmer Rice (book). It was based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play of ...