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 the Valley. LA Opera photo by Cory Weaver DETROIT, Dec. 02, 2025 (GLOBE ...
The Detroit Opera premiere pairs works by William Grant Still and Kurt Weill, opening the season with American love stories and folk-rooted sound.
But it works handsomely. Veteran director Giles Havergal’s hands-off approach would surely have pleased Weill’s testy collaborator Brecht. And having the songs accompanied, superbly, by Martin Pickard ...
The album captures a live performance of Opera North’s acclaimed production, recently named one of six finalists for Best Production of Musical Theater at the 2025 International Opera Awards. The ...
“Street Scene,” an American opera by Kurt Weill, Langston Hughes and Elmer Rice, is this year’s opera theater production presented by the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Music. Based on ...
The Detroit Opera House kicks off its season with two rarely seen operas: William Grant Still's 'Highway One USA' and Kurt Weill's 'Down in the Valley.' ...
Brian Stokes Mitchell, Kate Baldwin and other top-shelf singers star in an overly sentimental production of the long-lost Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner show. By Elisabeth Vincentelli Kurt Weill and ...
One summer night in 1928, first nighters crowded into a Berlin theater to see Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), composed by a young highbrow named Kurt Weill on a text by a proletarian poet ...
Smithsonian Collection of Recordings: RC 048-17 (Sony: PT 23954). Excerpts from musicals and operas. Program notes by James R. Morris.