Maid love
The Berta (mezzo-soprano Emily Damasco) runs away with the show.
3 pieces since 2018 — in 3 roles, at 3 companies, most often at Curtis Institute of Music.
The Berta (mezzo-soprano Emily Damasco) runs away with the show.
Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht’s Mahagonny Singspiel, and Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Medium—are not only combined, but configured to overlap in sometimes revealing, occasionally confounding ways.
It’s difficult to reconcile what Schlather writes with what we see onstage, which is a jumble not only of pianos, but of periods and concepts.
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