Kurt Weill opera silenced by Nazis to be heard again after 80 years | Stage | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/apr/27/kurt-weill-opera-the-tsar-wants-his-photograph-taken-revived-quashed-na
Il y a quand même, parfois des bonnes nouvelles : Le grand Kurt Weill avec “le Tsar qui voulait sa photo” !
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https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8766ae953463ec5a6abc6f6b82fa2fd7ac85c12a/0_357_6016_3608/master/6016.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdG8tZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&s=d189b445d1954bb521ebb39a047a076e German composer Kurt Weill is ranked high among the best of the 20th century and his music remains popular outside the classical world, from the enduring jazz standard Mack the Knife in his Threepenny Opera, to the Alabama Song covered by the Doors and David Bowie. But not all of Weill’s melodies survived the Nazi clampdown on Jewish culture.
Now, thanks to the work of an academic at University College London, a suppressed Weill stage hit that posed a puzzle for modern musicians is to be revived and performed in a fresh translation. The research of Michael Berkowitz, professor of Jewish history at UCL, in collaboration with the show’s new translator and director, Leo Doulton, has unlocked the mystery of The Tsar Wants His Photograph Taken and made it clear why this satirical work of 1927 was once so heavily suppressed. A performance on 4 May, the first with a full professional cast and orchestra for almost 40 years, will at last set the opera in its proper context, after 80 years of being largely ignored both in Germany and elsewhere.
