Set and Costume Design: Dick Bird

Lighting Design: James Farncombe

Choreography: Arthur Pita

Kurt Weill wrote Street Scene shortly after fleeing Nazi Germany to the United States. When he discovered the vitality of the American musical scene, his focus became to reconcile the Broadway musical with European traditional opera, jazzy and North-American tunes with an almost Puccinian-like lyricism. In his mind, opera had to embrace and reclaim its own theatricality: thus he wrote his Street Scene, meant to be a truly American opera, half-way between his Brechtian Threepennys Opera and Bernsteins later West Side Story and drawing from the famous play by Elmer Rice (recipient of the Pulitzer Price when it was published in 1928). Under Tim Murrays vivid and precise baton, this superb production by John Fulljames perfectly renders the vitality and energy released by the streets of New York that proved to be a great inspiration to the theatrical mind of the composer.

HD recording: Teatro Real, Madrid | 02/2018

TV direction: Jérémie Cuvillier

Running time: 160 min.

Booklet: FR / ENG / SPA

Original language: ENG

Subtitles: FR / ENG / GER / SPA / JP / KOR

Video: Colour, 16/9, NTSC

Audio: PCM 2.0, Dolby Digital 5.1

Artists

Patricia Racette (Anna Maurrant), Paulo Szot (Frank Maurrant), Mary Bevan (Rose Maurrant), Jeni Bern (Greta Fiorentino), Lucy Schaufer (Emma Jones), Joel Prieto (Sam Kaplan), Michael J. Scott (Lippo Fiorentino), Tyler Clarke (Daniel Buchanan), Marta Fontanals-Simmons (Jennie Hildebrand), Eric Greene (Henry Davis), Richard Burkhard (Harry Easter), Sarah-Marie Maxwell (Mae Jones) & Dominic Lamb (Dick McGann), Pequenos y Jovenes Cantores de la JORCAM & Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro Real de Madrid, Tim Murray (conductor) & John Fulljames (stage direction)