Name: Love Life
Start: 2025-01-16T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2025-01-18T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Leeds Grand Theatre

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Opera North

Orchestra

Orchestra of Opera North

Singer

Tenor

Quirijn de Lang

Sam Cooper

Soprano

Stephanie Corley

Susan Cooper

Conductor

James Holmes

Stage director

Matthew Eberhardt

Set designer

Zahra Mansouri

Costume designer

Béarla

Love Life

Leeds

United Kingdom

Grand Theatre

Love Life Weill

Public

Private

Joshua Dos

Approved

Leeds Grand Theatre

Accordionist

Instrumentalist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Chefdirigent Musiktheater

Choir

Choreographer

Chorus Director

Chorus master

Composer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Lighting designer

Makeup artist

Orchestra Operations

Other

Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Bass

Contralto

Baritone

Bass-baritone

Countertenor

Mezzo-soprano

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

In 1948 – the year of Love Life’s Broadway premiere – husband and wife Sam and Susan Cooper try to recall a time when their marriage was happy.

They reckon it was in 1790… The show then follows the ups and downs of the Coopers’ family life through 150 turbulent years of American history – during which they do not age – to paint the portrait of a marriage and of a nation.

Kurt Weill collaborated with lyricist Alan Jay Lerner (of My Fair Lady fame) to create a Broadway musical that was way ahead of its time, anticipating the later innovations in form and content of Stephen Sondheim. But Weill also pays loving tribute to the traditions of American popular music – especially vaudeville – in a score full of hummable show tunes and dazzlingly inventive orchestration.

A hit on Broadway when it opened – the New York Daily Mirror called it “superlative entertainment – a song and dance show with great heart” – it has never been given a definitive recording. That will be set right when these special Opera North performances are recorded in collaboration with the Kurt Weill Foundation. Don’t miss a unique opportunity to catch this important, influential, brilliantly entertaining show.

English

Love Life by Weill, hAo 17 Eaná 2025, Ó (2025/2025), Faoi stiúir Matthew Eberhardt,, Seoltóir James Holmes, Leeds Grand Theatre, Leeds, United Kingdom

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