Tag Archives: Kurt Streit

The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Royal Opera, ROH, Covent Garden, March 2015.

Posted on 11 March 2015

This is not an easy work to stage, emerging as it does from two slightly incompatible attitudes, by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, as to its eventual form. Its genesis lay in a series of songs — the Mahagonny Gesänge — published by Brecht in April 1927, which inspired Weill to fulfil a commission he …

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Tamerlano, Royal Opera, February 2010

Posted on 5 March 2010

Unfortunately [Domingo] was unavailable, but his replacement, Kurt Streit sang [Bazajet] superbly — one could not have asked for better.

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The Gambler, Royal Opera, February 2010

Posted on 19 February 2010

In the last two productions I’ve seen … the stage has been darkly lit, in keeping with the coldness and scheming inherent in the story, but this production by … is quite different.

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