"Seven deadly sins" by Kurt Weill, Opera de Paris, cond. A.Polianichko

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[@crazyorganist1609]

Beautiful music. Incredible dancing and singing. I need to discover more Kurt Weill

[@patrickcrosby3824]

This is fantastic! A conductor who fully understands the score, an orchestra that can play it, singers who can sing it, dancers who can dance, the set design (if that's what you call it), everything! Bravo!

[@wolfsec21]

Exactly. Von Otter was amazing.

[@Tkuhlmann34]

brilliant ending to a fantastic production

[@dianadaher9870]

Não canso de ouvir...foi um dos maiores presentes da vida conhecer essa obra e nessa versão ❤⚘

[@VOLKHVORONOVICH]

EXCELLENT PRODUCTION. Captures many of the tiny nuances implicit in the text, and creates a few (worthy) new ones. Wonderful depiction of the struggle we all face, which of our two sides do we feed? Which of the two wolves will we let become the strongest?

[@dianadaher9870]

Que obra fantástica!

[@cindyfollyfaria-viola4734]

Puito, apika!!! 😍💓💕💓

[@i.c.a.productionsbyr.p.]

Bravo Alexander 👏🎶🎼! Tutto il resto,... coreografie, scene e idea generale sono così orrendamente beffarde e grottesche che risultano essere piacevoli e cariche di estetica.

[@dianadaher9870]

Como eu amo

[@stamatispak]

Amazing!

[@Wagnerismus]

Anna I: Anne Sofie von Otter Anna II: Elisabeth Maurin and Caroline Bance The Family: Ian Caley, Stefan Margita, Nigel Smith, and Nicholas Cavallier Director: Laurent Pelly

[@leokatzeChen]

which year was it performed?

[@Wagnerismus]

I believe it was 2001

[@leokatzeChen]

@@Wagnerismus thank u for the info. I really enjoy the innovative touch in dance and detail.

[@johnnysongdujour]

this is absolutely amazing, thank you

[@JanetteHeffernan]

Might be amazing but it is not The Seven Deadly Sins of KurtWeill!

[@appafonso]

obrigado. muito obrigado.

[@hannureittu4310]

🤩

[@fem953]

i enjoyed this production, although i felt a big misstep during the Wrath and Lust segments. In Wrath, Brecht wrote a scene that is about wrath kindled by injustice. While there is injustice here as well (The pop star sexually harasses one of her dancers), Anna II responds not by reprimanding the pop star, but by getting upset with her fellow dancer for being harassed?? like what type of wrath is Anna I stopping her sister from enacting here? The point of Lust is that Anna II wants to enjoy a love without the pressure of being persuaded by money which she has in Fernando, and the director Pelly et al. misunderstand it by turning it into "Anna is a huge slut and cuckolds her man, Edward." The choreography turns the idea of Anna II's love into one of a transactional nature, which is what she already has with Edward.

[@JanetteHeffernan]

The director missed the boat on this one. Maybe he didn't speak German so made it up.

[@martialsauvecomposer]

What would be the 8th deadly sin? Giving a thumbs-down to this wonderful sung ballet production.

[@JanetteHeffernan]

I think you hit the nail on the head without meaning to. The singing in some parts was so unacceptably out of tune.

[@delphinaparenti1]

is it the original choreography by Balanchine?

[@mlebron20]

Delphina Parenti yes

[@michaelheintz8853]

I really liked the choreography but the piece doesn't work with an operatic voice.

[@JanetteHeffernan]

Yes it does when done properly.

[@JanetteHeffernan]

Interesting production. Has a lightness of touch that is necessary for this ironic musical but the message of "The Seven Deadly Sins" seems to have been lost in translation. That I could understand but the singing was so out of tune in some parts that the beautiful music was unrecognisable. How on earth could this happen at the Paris Opera? I know it is the fashion to rewrite operas on occasions but as one other commentator has pointed out, this production bears no relation to the script. Obviously Weill did not write enough music either for one pas de deux is added in silence. Why? There are no empty bars in the score so why add them? It ruins the flow. Can you imagine adding a silent pas de deux in "Swan Lake"? So what is The Seven Deadly Sins about? Here is the plot in words of one syllable. Anna1 & Anna 2 are possibly the same person, both go on the journey which takes 7 years, each year in a different USA City. The family stays at home. (The production got this bit right!) Anna 1 is a typical ambitious all American girl on the make. Anna 1 is out to make money and is prepared to do anything to make it. She sees to it her sister toes the line every step of the way. Anna 2 is a romantic and believes in freedom to do what she wants and commits Seven Deadly Sins that really are not Deadly at all. The socially acceptable alternative is much more Deadly. Anna 2 is lazy, she does not want to sell herself to make money. Anna 2 is proud and likes to give her audience classical ballet even if her audience prefer Kitsch! Anna 2 hates injustice. She physically horse whips an abusive film director who is ill treating a circus pony. Anna 2 loves to eat. She cannot see why dancers have to be thin. Anna 2 is monogamous. She is not a whore. She loves one man. Anna 2 is greedy. She loves fame and fortune. Humility is not in her vocabulary. She is made to stop as it "Looks bad PR!" Anna 2 is envious of those who are free to indulge their passions. Her family representing middle-class capitalism walks all over her and her Seven Enchanting Little Sins and she is left with a little house in Louisiana! The point being that The Sins are less Deadly than her greedy all American Family. It is not that difficult to understand is it! I don't think this production got one of these Seven Deadly Sins right.