Kurt Weill Trailers
Concert for Notre-Dame La Tempête | Sabine Devieilhe | Olivier Latry TrailerAufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny TrailerThe Seven Deadly Sins / Mahagonny Song Play - Teatro Alla Scala Trailer
Concert for Notre-Dame La Tempête | Sabine Devieilhe | Olivier Latry TrailerAufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny TrailerThe Seven Deadly Sins / Mahagonny Song Play - Teatro Alla Scala Trailer
Total trailers found: 33
31 December 1992
The story of Kurt Weill 's relationship with the American popular theatre. During his years in exile on Broadway, the composer of Mack the Knife and The Alabama Song, who personified decadent Berlin, found a new life in New York, creating such standards as September Song and Speak Low.
08 June 1931
The French-language version of the The Threepenny Opera with a different cast from the German version.
16 April 1984
Short opera. A boy falls in love with a girl after an Appalachian prayer meeting, but her father wants her to go to the dance with a local shyster who the father thinks will bail him out of his money troubles instead.
28 February 2019
The main plot of this rampant collection of scenes from the streets of the lower East Side of New York revolves around Frank and Anna Maurrant and their daughter Rose.
18 February 1931
In London at the turn of the century, underworld kingpin Mack the Knife marries Polly Peachum without the knowledge of her father, the equally enterprising 'king of the beggars'.
08 April 1974
A black South African minister searches the unfamiliar back alleys and shantytowns of Johannesburg for his son.
28 February 1963
The Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and hang Macheath.
15 November 2011
A hard-hitting new production of Kurt Weill’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny by the Catalan collective La Fura dels Baus at the Teatro Real de Madrid.
17 March 1944
The wild and woolly early days of New York -- when it was still known as New Amsterdam -- provide the backdrop for this period musical-comedy.
25 September 1954
The unhappy female editor of a fashion magazine is undergoing psychoanalysis.
01 January 1993
The opera takes place on the doorstep of a tenement on the East Side of Manhattan on two brutally hot days in 1946.
10 February 1944
A neurotic editor sees a psychoanalyst about the advertising man, movie star and other man in her life.
27 November 1979
John Dexter’s brilliant production, James Levine’s masterful conducting of the eclectic score, and a sensational cast come together to make this Kurt Weill–Bertolt Brecht masterpiece a riveting evening of music theater.
17 May 1999
A biblical drama in four acts. Set in a synagogue where Jews hide all night as a pogrom rages outside, the story combines Biblical and pre-World War II Jewish history.
27 August 1955
While touring a museum, Rodney Hatch, an unremarkable barber, places an engagement ring intended for his girlfriend on the hand of a statue of Venus, the goddess of love and beauty.
18 March 2021
The Seven Deadly Sins tells the story of two sisters, Anna I and Anna II. The sisters set out from the banks of the Mississippi River in Louisiana to find their fortune in the big cities, intending to send their family enough money to build a little house on the river.
01 January 1995
The Threepenny Opera proclaims itself "an opera for beggars," and it was in fact an attempt both to satirize traditional opera and operetta and to create a new kind of musical theater based on the theories of two young German artists, composer Kurt Weill and poet-playwright Bert Brecht.
01 January 1998
Depicts the consumerism of the mythical city of Mahagonny, conveying all its ripe decadence. A Hollywood Babylon full of pyramidal towers, carved elephants, commodified sex and licensed gluttony.
06 July 2019
Composed in the 1930s by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, this is a mordant satire on capitalism and ty
13 September 1980
Harry Smith’s final film; an epic four-screen projection. Smith worked on this cinematic transformation of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (1929) for over ten years and considered it his magnum opus.
25 January 1994
Filmmaker Larry Weinstein stages a wide range of performances in tribute to the compositions of Kurt Weill.
01 June 1938
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight.
30 April 2022
In an imaginary American city, God consigns its licentious citizens to hell but they truculently reply that they are already there.
21 December 2000
Macheath (Mack the Knife), notorious bandit and womanizer, runs afoul of Jonathan Peachum when he marries Peachum's daughter Polly in a ceremony of doubtful legality.
18 December 2007
- Recorded live at Los Angeles Opera, 1 & 4 March 2007. Welcome to Mahagonny, where sin is "in" and love is always on sale.
09 February 1974
The city of Mahagonny, founded by three criminals, becomes a place for people looking for their luck or money.
21 September 1978
"Don't Be Seduced" - Gothenburg's Brecht-ensemble performs songs and texts of Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill and Hanns Eisler.
01 August 1948
A window dresser's kiss brings a statue of the Roman goddess of love to life.
22 September 2016
As London's East End scrubs up for the coronation, Mr and Mrs Peachum gear up for a bumper day in the beggary business.
08 March 2025
Simon-Pierre Bestion celebrates the musical and cultural heritage of Paris' Notre-Dame with the La Tempête ensemble and a host of guests like Sabine Devieilhe and Olivier Latry, among others.