Kurt Weill Street Scene opera to libretto by Elmer Rice and Langston Hughes. Directed 2018 by John Fulljames (with Associate Director Lucy Bradley) at the Teatro Real de Madrid. Stars Paulo Szot (Frank Maurrant), Patricia Racette (Anna Maurrant), Mary Bevan (Rose Maurrant), Joel Prieto (Sam Kaplan), Lucy Schaufer (Emma Jones), Jeni Bern (Greta Fiorentino), Michael J. Scott (Lippo Fiorentino), Tyler Clarke (Daniel Buchanan), Marta Fontanals-Simmons (Jennie Heldebrand), Eric Greene (Henry Davis), Richard Burkhard (Harry Easter), Sarah-Marie Maxwell (Mae Jones), and Dominic Lamb (Dick McGann). Tim Murray conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Real de Madrid (Chorus Master Andrés Máspero) and the JORCAM (youth orchestra and choir of Madrid). Set and costume design by Dick Bird; lighting design by James Farncombe; choreography by Arthur PIta; sound design by Poti Martin. Directed for TV by Jérémie Cuvillier; produced by Xavier Dubois and Natalia Camacho. Sung in English. Released 2019, disc has 5.1 dts-HD Master Audio sound. Grade: NA
This is considered an opera, not a musical. Or maybe it’s a Pita ballet. Anyhow, we trust the Teatro Real de Madrid as much as anyone in the business, so we will cover this. Neil Fisher in his review at page 95 of the March 2020 Gramophone generally praises the “intimacy and spectacle” involved this work offering “social satire, bloody tragedy, burgeoning love, and a smidge of razzle-dazzle (with room for Arthur Pita’s choreography).”
Here are a couple of official clips:
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