The premiere at the Teatro Real of Street Scene, by Kurt Weill, were one of the important events of the season. With the libretto by Elmer Rice, based on a story by the same name (Pulitzer Prize-winning play 1929), and the song lyrics by Langston Hughe, Street Scene narrates a series of anonymous lives in a big city from a brutally realistic viewpoint.
This was Weill’s first opera composed during his American exile years and he referred to it as an “American opera”; in it, the Broadway musical, North American jazz and European traditional opera converge.
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American opera
Music by Kurt Weill (1900-1950)
Libretto by Elmer Rice, based on his work of the same name (1929), with lyrics by Elmer Rice and Langston Hughes
Agreement with the European American Music Corporation, represented by Universal Edition AG, Vienna
Premiered at the Adelphi Theatre de Broadway (Nueva York), on January 9, 1947
Premiere at the Teatro Real
New production of the Teatro Real, in coproduction with the Opéra de Monte-Carlo and the Oper Köln
Principal Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real
Pequeños Cantores of the ORCAM
Artistic team
Conductor | Tim Murray
Stage director | John Fulljames
Collaborating director | Lucy Bradley
Set and costume designer | Dick Bird
Choreographer | Arthur Pita
Lighting designer | James Farncombe
Sound designer | Poti Martin
Chorus master | Andrés Máspero
Children's chorus master | Ana González
Cast
Abraham Kaplan | Geoffrey Dolton
Greta Fiorentino | Jeni Bern
Carl Olsen | Scott Wilde
Emma Jones | Lucy Schaufer
Olga Olsen | Harriet Williams
Henry Davis | Eric Greene
Anna Maurrant | Patricia Racette
Sam Kaplan | Joel Prieto
Daniel Buchanan | Tyler Clarke
Frank Maurrant | Paulo Szot
George Jones | Gerardo Bullón
Lippo Fiorentino | Michael J. Scott
Jennie Hildebrand | Marta Fontanals-Simmons
Rose Maurrant | Mary Bevan
Harry Easter | Richard Burkhard
Mae Jones / Babysitter 1 | Sarah-Marie Maxwell
Dick McGann | Dominic Lamb
Babysitter 2 | Laurel Dougall
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