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The Seven Deadly Sins

Ballet Chanté
Text by Bertolt Brecht
Edition: Performance material

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Description

The sisters Anna 1 and Anna 2 are sent on a seven-year journey to various North American cities by their family to earn money for ‘a small house near the Mississippi’. During their journey, they are tempted by the seven biblical deadly sins. Gradually, they give up their dreams and ideals eventually to return to Louisiana to their family, completely disillusioned.

Kurt Weill composed the ballet chanté Die sieben Todsünden, based on a text by Bertolt Brecht, in 1933 in his Paris exile. Premièred in the ballet version of Georges Balanchine at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées on 7 June 1933, it quickly became one of his best-known works. The music plays with popular American music styles of the twenties such as tango, foxtrot, polka or barbershop. Weill and Brecht perfectly ironize the petty bourgeois double standards of each society willing to sacrifice their values for the sake of financial gain.

Orchestral Cast

2 (auch Picc.) · 1 · 2 · 1 - 2 · 2 · 1 · 1 - 4 P. S. (Gong · Beck. · 3 Tomt. · gr. Tr.) (2 Spieler) - Banjo (auch Git.) · Hfe. · Klav. - Str.

Content

I Prolog
II Faulheit
III Stolz
IV Zorn
V Völlerei
VI Unzucht
VII Habsucht
VIII Neid
IX Epilog 

Cast

Anna I · Sopran - Anna II · Tänzerin - Die Familie: Tenor I, II, Bariton, Bass (die Mutter)
[Die transponierten Gesänge für tiefe Frauenstimme erschienen als Anhang zur Neuausgabe.]

More Information

Title:
The Seven Deadly Sins
Ballet Chanté
Text by Bertolt Brecht
English by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman
New edition of the original version
Language:
German, English
Edition:
Performance material
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
1933
Duration:
35 ′
World Premiere:
June 7, 1933 · Paris (F)
Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
Conductor: Maurice Abravanel
Costumes: Caspar Neher · Set design: Caspar Neher · Choreography: George Balanchine
Series:

Technical Details

Product number:
LS 4213-01
Delivery rights:
Worldwide

Performances

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  • The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Simon Rattle
    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Berlin
    June 18, 2024 | Berlin (Germany) , Staatsoper Unter den Linden
  • The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Simon Rattle
    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Berlin
    June 17, 2024 | Berlin (Germany) , Staatsoper Unter den Linden
  • The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Peter Stam
    Orchestra: Prins Claus Conservatorium Groningen
    April 21, 2024 | Groningen (Netherlands) , De Oosterpoort
  • The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Peter Stam
    Orchestra: Prins Claus Conservatorium Groningen
    April 20, 2024 | Assen (Netherlands) , Adventskerk
  • The Seven Deadly Sins
    Conductor: Bas Wiegers
    Orchestra: Münchener Kammerorchester
    April 18, 2024 | München (Germany) , Prinzregententheater
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