It’s a pretty safe bet that, if you walked up to 10 people on the street and asked them who Brecht and Weill were, you’d get at least eight blank stares. Maybe two people would recognize the pair’s ...

Bertold Brecht put Marxist collectivism and dialectical materialism into his art as few other Western writers. His avidness for money? No matter. The German poet-playwright belied any doubts about his ...

The Glimmerglass Festival has announced details and casting for its touring production of “Happy End,” a musical satire by ...

How do you make a radio cantata about one man's non-stop, 3,600-mile, 33-hour journey take flight as an opera? It was a challenge that the Canadian director and screenwriter François Girard couldn't ...

For admirers she was the second coming of Mother Courage and the greatest interpreter of the Brecht-Weill songbook. For critics she was an artistic apparatchik, compromised by her loyalty to East ...

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