Orchestra of Opera North: Kurt Weill: Love Life - COMPACT DISCS

Orchestra of Opera North: Kurt Weill: Love Life - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

Kurt Weill: Love Life

Artist:

Orchestra of Opera North

Label:

Capriccio

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

845221055503

Genre:

Classical Artists

Release Date:

2025-11-28

Number of Discs:

2

As a concept musical, Love Life was a real trailblazer, inspiring musical theatre favourites of the 1960s, 70s and beyond from Cabaret and Chicago (originally subtitled 'A Musical Vaudeville') to Sondheim's Company (told through a series of vignettes). It is "one of Weill's best scores" (conductor Jim Holmes), a masterpiece of putting different musical styles together, "a compendium of American musical idioms, cunningly chosen so that they suit the dramatic material". Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner teamed up in 1947, both riding high on recent successes (Street Scene for Weill, Brigadoon for Lerner) and looking for new projects. When Love Life premiered on Broadway in 1948, Weill called it "an entirely new form of theatre." Stephen Sondheim denoted it as "a useful influence on my own work."

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