Film / 1993

Kurt Weill: Street Scene

Name: Kurt Weill: Street Scene
Genre: Musik
Released: 1993-01-01
Duration: 148 min
Cast: Janice Cairns, Lesley Garrett, Kevin Anderson, Mark Richardson, Daniel Ison

Regie Barrie Gavin

Musik

Die Geschichte

Inhaltsangabe auf Englisch

The opera takes place on the doorstep of a tenement on the East Side of Manhattan on two brutally hot days in 1946. The story focuses on two plotlines: the romance between Rose Maurrant and her neighbor Sam Kaplan; and on the extramarital affair of Rose's mother, Anna, which is eventually discovered by Rose's irritable father, Frank. The show portrays the ordinary romances, squabbles and gossips of the neighbors, as the mounting tensions involving the Maurrant family eventually build into a tragedy of epic proportions. Broadcast on BBC Two on New Years Day, 1993, this production was performed by the English National Opera and conducted by James Holmes.