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The last full Broadway run that composer Kurt Weill enjoyed during his lifetime was the 252 performances of Love Life, a self-described "vaudeville" that looked in on a married couple every 30 years ...

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 ...

Although the music of Kurt Weill has, in recent years, boasted such notable interpreters as Teresa Stratas and Ute Lemper, one performer will forever be associated with Weill, as well as with the ...

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ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Eastman School of Music held its final round of the Kurt Weill Foundation’s Lotte Lenya Competition, as well as its 25th Anniversary Gala Concert, on Saturday as part of a ...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lotte Lenya (18 October 1898 – 27 November 1981) was an Austrian singer and actress. In the German-speaking and classical music world she is best remembered for ...

Glamour, in the despairing Berlin of the early ’30s, wore the face of “a disillusioned child singing outside a public house.” The voice was husky with melancholy, the song a loose shrug of defiance: / ...

Jerry Lanning (center), a member of the original cast of "Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill: A Musical Voyage" works with members of The Syracuse University Department of Drama cast. The show plays ...

Actress and singer Lotte Lenya has long been an object of fascination for physical theater artist Sondra Blanchard, whose mentor lent her a biography of Lenya ten years ago. But it wasn’t until the ...