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INSANE: Kurt weill - The Real Truth

Hampson and Sidorova review – style over substance with a whiff of the cruise ship

The US singer Thomas Hampson paired with accordionist Ksenija Sidorova to perform highlights from Schubert’s Winterreise alongside Weill and Piazzolla. Alas much of this disappointing evening felt like a vanity project

The Guardian - UK

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny review – big and brash staging for Brecht and Weill’s whisky-soaked dystopia

Jamie Manton’s new production for English National Opera is sparky and substantial. Danielle de Niese brings star quality to tarty Jenny, and the chorus are consistently superb

The Guardian - UK

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny: A Trumpian 'hellhole' opera

4/5 The ENO bring Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s opera to the Coliseum as a dystopia for our times

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‘That make-or-break feeling? I love it’: can André de Ridder put ENO back on its feet?

Budgets have been slashed, morale is through the floor and the company has been forced to find a second base in Manchester. But the new musical director is up for a challenge. We meet the man with the hardest job in music

The Guardian - UK

In Search of Youkali album review – Katie Bray is outstanding in this voyage around Weill

The easy fluency of Bray and pianist William Vann guides us through familiar and less well known Kurt Weill songs with the haunting Youkali as the lodestar on our journey

The Guardian - UK

Rufus Wainwright on music, politics and life: ‘Creativity helps to fend off the darker angels’

INTERVIEW: Next month, the musician releases a cover album of songs by his hero Kurt Weill. He talks to Jude Rogers about life under Trump, hanging out with Marianne Faithfull, and why he’ll never criticise Britain over Brexit again

The Independent UK

Marianne Faithfull obituary

Singer who found pop fame and tabloid infamy in the 60s but returned to music in the 70s with Broken English, a statement of bloody-minded survival

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Love Life review – surreal Kurt Weill musical skips through the decades with flair

This time-hopping oddity rarely gets an outing, but Opera North’s jazzy large-scale production makes the most of its vaudeville glitz

The Guardian - UK

The Kurt Weill Album review – an impressively intense debut for Joana Mallwitz

Weill’s rarely heard symphonies are teamed with his satirical survey of the seven deadly sins in the conductor’s first recording with the orchestra

The Guardian - UK

Barrie Kosky carves his name with The Threepenny Opera

Barrie Kosky's version of The Threepenny Opera is tipped to become a definitive production of the Brecht and Weill masterpiece.

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Melanie obituary

American singer who became a star at the Woodstock festival and had a string of hits including Brand New Key and Ruby Tuesday

The Guardian - UK

Prom 60: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin/Jurowski/Gerstein review – elegance, dash and flair

With a programme of Weill, Adès and Rachmaninov, the Berlin orchestra led by Vladimir Jurowksi showed what a fine group it is

The Guardian - UK

Shows to look out for at this year’s Edinburgh Festivals

THIS year’s Edinburgh Festivals open in the coming days.

The National (Scotland)

Love in a Time of Hate by Florian Illies review – dissolute years of a doomed generation

The experimental sex lives of the artists and thinkers of the roaring 20s are set against the burgeoning threat of fascism in this wickedly amusing and timely book

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LSO/Simon Rattle and Magdalena Kožená, Barbican Hall review: A whirlwind tour through the Seven Deadly Sins

Kožená adriotly balances the two sides of singer-dancer Anna in a performance of Kurt Weill and Bertold Brecht’s final project

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