- Mahagonny, ein
Songspiel, or Mahagonny, a song-play, was
written by
composer Kurt
Weill and
dramatist Bertolt Brecht and
first performed with that title...
-
Specialized form of
Posse mit
Gesang concentrating on
social situations.
Songspiel German Literally, "song play" ("Song"
being the
English word as used in...
- in 1807. In 1927, Kurt
Weill created a new word, "
Songspiel", to
describe his work Mahagonny-
Songspiel.
Notes According to the 1908
edition of Grove's Dictionary...
- from the
album Escapology, 2002 "Song Three", a song from the Mahagonny-
Songspiel "Three", a song by
Karma to Burn from the
album Wild,
Wonderful Purgatory...
-
Elephant Calf (Das Elefantenkalb) 1924–26/1926
Little Mahagonny (Mahagonny-
Songspiel) 1927/1927 The
Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper) 1928/1928 The Flight...
- to
music by Kurt
Weill for the 1927 play
Little Mahagonny (Mahagonny-
Songspiel) and
reused for
Brecht and Weill's 1930
opera Rise and Fall of the City...
-
until 1981.
According to Sondheim, he was
asked to
translate Mahagonny-
Songspiel: "But I'm not a Brecht/Weill fan and that's
really all
there is to it...
-
Sarah Kane's Cleansed, the
Broadway play Hand to God, and Mahagonny-
Songspiel and The
Seven Deadly Sins by
Brecht and Weill. To
raise funds for the...
-
Schuloper Science fiction opera Semi-opera
Sepolcro Serenata Singspiel Songspiel Spieloper Syngespil Tonadilla Tragédie en
musique Verismo Zarzuela Zauberoper...
- came to
prominence in his Off-Broadway
satirical review Das
Lusitania Songspiel,
which he
performed with
friend and
fellow Yale alum
Sigourney Weaver...
