Date of Birth: November 25, 1878
Date of Death: June 04, 1945 (66)
Birth Place: Magdeburg, GERMANY
The Board of Directors of Chicago Opera Theater (COT) announced the unanimous approval of a five-year extension of General Director Lawrence Edelson's contract through 2031.
Horizon Theatre Rep will present ITHAKA by Gottfried Benn as part of its ongoing streaming series German Plays from the 1910s & 1920s.
Chicago Opera Theater will present the Chicago premiere of DER SILBERSEE: EIN WINTERMÄRCHEN (THE SILVER LAKE – A WINTER’S FAIRY TALE) by Kurt Weill, with text by Georg Kaiser, from March 4 through March 8 at the Studebaker Theater in Chicago.
Chicago Opera Theater will present the second Discovery Concert of the 2025-26 season.
Horizon Theatre Rep continues its German Plays from the 1910s & 1920s streaming series with THE TRANSFIGURATION by Ernst Toller, directed, conceived, and designed by Rafael De Mussa.
For one night only on Monday, September 22, 2025, at 7:30 pm, international cabaret star Adrienne Haan will perform Adrienne Haan Sings Kurt Weill at the York Theatre Company.
Chicago Opera Theater has unveiled its 2025/26 Season.
Horizon Theatre Rep will continue the streaming series of German Plays from the 1910s & 1920s.
Horizon Theatre Rep presents Ernst Toller's The Transfiguration: Alarum & Prologue, a German play from the 1910s & 1920s.
Horizon Theatre Rep (Rafael De Mussa, Artistic Director) has announced the streaming series of German Plays from the 1910s & 1920s.
Imaginatively staged, for the first time in the UK for 100 years, Emily Louizou’s revival captures in looks and sounds, but fails to engage the audience with its message.
The weather might be cooling, but the West End is heating up.
The cast has been announced for Collide Theatre's production of Georg Kaiser's The Coral, with Stuart Laing (Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, West End) leading the cast as the ruthless Millionaire.
The Finborough's previously announced production of Field, Awakening from 29 November to 21 December has had to be postponed.
A millionaire who grew up in poverty will do just about anything to gain more power and wealth at the expense of the class he was once a member of, but when his children challenge his ruthless exploitation, he is forced to commit the unthinkable.
Deutsche Grammophon has announced the signing of a long-term project contract with the Freiburger Barockorchester (FBO).
'Silverlake will bear whoever must go farther!' (Wer weiter muss, den trägt der Silbersee): this is the final, utopian sentence at the end of Der Silbersee by Kurt Weill and Georg Kaiser.
The idiosyncratic theatre maker Ersan Mondtag, who made his opera debut at Opera Ballet Vlaanderen with the acclaimed Der Schmied von Gent (Franz Schreker), here offers a contemporary take on Der Silbersee.
Yara Arts Group will offer the American debut of its new work 'Opera GAZ,' December 19, 20 and 22 at La MaMa, 66 East 4th Street.
Steven Blier, Artistic Director a?? Michael Barrett, Associate Artistic Director presents Marc Blitzstein's No For An Answer and Kurt Weill's Der Silbersee (Silverlake).
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