The Kurt Weill Edition has just released its latest volume, Johnny Johnson (Series I, Volume 13), edited by musicologist Tim Carter of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Johnny Johnson marked Weill’s first contribution to the American musical theater. The anti-war musical opened in November 1936 on Broadway, where it enchanted audiences and critics alike. Lee Strasberg directed, and the cast included a young Elia Kazan.

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The Leipzig Opera presents a new production of Kurt Weill’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny this Saturday.

Kerstin Polenske directs. Ulf Schirmer and William Lacey conduct.

In a poignant if unforeseen comment on the financial crisis in Greece, Kurt Weill’s opera The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny comes to the Megaron in Athens tonight in the acclaimed production from Madrid’s Teatro Real.

Art mirrors reality once again. The Madrid performance was accompanied by a public sector strike, with uncollected rubbish lying in the streets of the capital.

It’s a historic day in Vienna, with the first ever performance of a Kurt Weill work at the Vienna State Opera.

Ingo Metzmacher conducts the Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny in a production by Jérôme Deschamps. Elisabeth Kulman, Angelika Kirchschlager and Christopher Ventris sing the lead roles.

See more at the Vienna State Opera website.

Kurt Weill’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny opens in a new production at the Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv this Thursday.

Watch conductor David Stern and director Omri Nitzan talking about the work and the production.

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The most recent volume in the Kurt Weill Edition, Music with Solo Violin, has received two 2011 Paul Revere Awards from the Music Publishers Association of America.

The Critical Report won First Prize for Book Design in Educational Folios and the score won Second Prize for Full Score Music Notesetting.

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Congratulations to The Opera Group for their production of Kurt Weill’s Street Scene, now on at the Young Vic in London.

The Telegraph gave it four coveted stars: “If you want to see a theatre at full stretch and maximum throttle, head to the Young Vic, which is reviving its thrilling production of Kurt Weill’s 1947 ‘Broadway opera’, Street Scene.”

The production tours to Vienna and around the UK following its run in London. See the Opera Group website for dates and venues.

Read more about the work on the European American Music website and at the Kurt Weill Foundation. 

Here’s a snapshot from last week’s première of Kurt Weill’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.

The production by La Fura dels Baus came to Moscow fresh from its success at the Teatro Real in Madrid.

The banners read “Freedom for the Oligarchs” and “For a fair justice”.

The Volkstheater in Munich presents a new production of Kurt Weill's Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera) this weekend.

Stage direction is by Christian Stückl.