It is a physical pleasure to hear Kate Lindsey at close quarters.
There are two problems to address – problems of the sort the arts thrive on addressing.
There was much to love in Andrew Ousley’s Tiergarten: a three-night cabaret revue from Death of Classical and part of Carnegie Hall’s Weimar Festival, performed in the vaulted gothic hall of the Church of St. Mary.
The great Dalai Lama once said, “whenever there is a challenge, there is also an opportunity to face it, to demonstrate and develop our will and determination.”
A broadcast of Weill and Brecht’s pungent Die Dreigroschenoper
Which diva gets to sing “I hope you die! I hope you die soon! I’ll be waiting for you to die!”
Coming from placid, luxurious Geneva, where I am currently living, Berlin felt even more jarring than usual.
This 2010 DVD
of Brecht and Weill’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny from Madrid assumes pride of place among the available video versions of the opera.
“Hey the line forms, on the right dear / Now that Macheath’s back in town / You’d better lock your doors, and call the law / Because Macheath’s back in town.” So concludes Marc Blitzstein’s famous English translation of the song that opens Die Dreigroschenoper.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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