Organization

Singer

Soprano

Wallis Giunta

1. Anna

Bass

Dean Robinson

Mutter

Tenor

Campbell Russell

Vater

Stuart Laing

Bruder I

Baritone

Nicholas Butterfield

Bruder II

Dancer

Shelley Eva Haden

2. Anna

Stage director

Gary Clarke

Conductor

James Holmes

Costume designer

George Johnson-Leigh

Set designer

Stephen Rodwell

Video designer

Jonathan Haswell

Opera North

Orchestra

Orchestra of Opera North

English

Die sieben Todsünden -  (The Seven Deadly Sins)

Leeds

United Kingdom

Meet Anna and Anna: one person, two personalities. Sent away for seven years to make money for their struggling family, they journey between seven cities from Philadelphia to San Francisco, and encounter Sloth, Pride, Wrath, Gluttony, Lust, Greed and Envy on the way. As they do, they dance, sing, argue and withstand the sardonic commentary of their family.

Written and premiered in Paris in 1933, The Seven Deadly Sins was to be the final collaboration between the composer Kurt Weill and the playwright Bertolt Brecht. They had scored a huge hit together with The Threepenny Opera in 1928, but their relationship soured as they worked towards the premiere of The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny in 1930. Brecht always felt that Weill was too much the dreamer and that his music needed words to make it relevant and practical. So the piece can be seen as a perfect metaphor for the fractured state of their relationship. It also functions on many other levels: as a critique of capitalism, of the church and of the way that women are treated in this society.

Streamed on OperaVision on 8 April 2022 at 19:00 CET and available until 8 October 2022: https://operavision.eu/en/library/per...

CAST

Anna I: Wallis Giunta
Anna II: Shelley Eva Haden
Father: Campbell Russell
Brother: Stuart Laing
Mother: Dean Robinson
Brother: Nicholas Butterfield
Orchestra: Orchestra of Opera North

Music: Kurt Weill
Text: Bertolt Brecht, English translation by Michael Feingold
Conductor: James Holmes
Director: Gary Clarke
Set Designer: George Johnson-Leigh
Costume Designer: George Johnson-Leigh, Stephen Rodwell
Lighting Designer: Mike Lock
Video Producer: Jonathan Haswell
By arrangement with Schott Music Ltd agent for The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music and the heirs of Bertolt Brecht.

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