GOSSE & GLAMOUR - Echo der Moderne: Eine Hommage an Kurt Weill, den Broadway und das Berlin der wilden 20er Jahre (14. Stuttgarter Chortage)

In the organizer's words:

Many Kurt Weill songs are world-famous and some have become jazz standards such as "Speak low", "My Ship" or "Mack the Knife". In Germany, people usually only remember the works from his creative phase before he fled to America: The Threepenny Opera or the Mahagonny Songspiel. His Broadway works such as "Street Scene" or "One Touch of Venus" or "Lady in the Dark" are rarely heard in this country.

What does all this have to do with ORSO (Orchestra & Choral Society e. V.)? The founder of ORSO is Wolfgang Roese, who was born in Kippenheim. He now lives in Berlin, the city where Kurt Weill created the "Threepenny Opera". Kurt Weill's parents, Albert and Emma, lived in Kippenheim, just two houses away from where Roese grew up. Albert was the cantor at the synagogue in Kippenheim. It was there that the ORSOvocals launched an extraordinary performance entitled "Gosse & Glamour" last summer. It began in the synagogue, then the choir and orchestra sang, danced and played their way through the village, stopping off in the courtyard of the Gasthaus Rindfuß (the Weills' home) before moving on to the Bürgerhaus, where they put on a brilliant show.

ORSOvocals - these are the voices of the ORSOchoir from the Berlin, Stuttgart and Freiburg locations. They slip into the roles of the characters from Weill's oeuvre and bring the wild 1920s and dark 1930s to the stage of the Theaterhaus in a wild revue. Under the direction of Wolfgang Roese at the piano, they perform Kurt Weill's world hits from both his German and American creative phases.

Price information:

The discounts stated apply to pupils, students, people with disabilities, FSJ, FÖJ, BFD, FWD with appropriate ID. The prices for concert tickets include VVG and VAT plus system processing and shipping costs by RESERVIX. On the day of the event, the ticket entitles the holder to travel to the venue on all VVS public transport (2nd class) from 3 hours before the start of the event and for the return journey until closing time (including night buses). Excluded are free, service and honorary tickets as well as concerts by/with GWRS Ostheim, Mädchengymnasium St. Agnes and the International Choir of Stuttgart.