Katharine Mehrling performs songs by Kurt Weill A Berlin evening [2023]
In addition to her acclaimed performances at the Bar jeder Vernunft (as well as in Ball im Savoy and My Fair Lady at the Komische Oper Berlin), Katharine Mehrling has become one of the most important Kurt Weill interpreters of recent years. Hardly any composer unites the complexity and diversity of the 1920’s soundscape better than Kurt Weill—and hardly anyone knows how to play with them better than Katharine Mehrling!
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Katharine Mehrling
Weill, born the son of a Jewish cantor, was educated as a student of Ferruccio Busoni, and had his big break through his collaboration with Bertolt Brecht. The Threepenny Opera and Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny made Weill both an acclaimed song composer and a new hope of the opera stage.
Katharine Mehrling slips effortlessly into the diverse characters of numerous songs, and follows the moods of a night in Berlin à la Weill.
From the “Farewell Letter” at Café Bauer, to “Berlin in the Light”, to songs from The Threepenny Opera , it’s an evening in twilight, full of loneliness, bittersweet melancholy, stubborn sharpness and rebellious grit!
1hr 40 min, no intermission
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Participating artists
Victoria Behr (Kostüme)
Klaus Grünberg (Bühnenbild)
Klaus Grünberg (Licht)
Maximilian Hagemeyer (Dramaturgie)
Barrie Kosky (Inszenierung)
Kai Tietje (Musikalische Leitung)
Katharine Mehrling (Sängerin)
Michael Fernandez (Tänzer)
Orchester der Komischen Oper Berlin (Orchester)
