Word: opera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sourwood Mountain, Hop Up, My Ladies). And critics agree that he has shown how to grow native opera-even if it is only small-potato-size opera...
Down in the Valley, a one-act "folk opera" by Composer Kurt Weill and Librettist Arnold Sundgaard, had become a sensational hit on the campus theater circuit all over the U.S. Written a year ago, it had already had some 80 separate productions. Last week its latest one was the biggest hit in the three-year history of Manhattan's zestful Lemonade Opera company...
...opera house, a church basement in Greenwich Village, was sold out for nearly a week in advance. Said the manager: "We're swamped." Said Weill, who has already made $2,000 in royalties from the piece: "There are little opera companies all over the country which are crying for just this sort of thing ... If I had three of these one-act operas to make a full evening's entertainment, they would make a living for both composer and librettist...
...Loves J.P. Weill intends to write them soon, and a full-length opera as well, all based on U.S. folk tales and tunes. He thinks there is plenty of material for others to follow suit. "The trick," he says, "is to write them so nonprofessional groups can do them...
...been working toward this," Kurt Weill said last week. Everything began for him in Dessau, Germany. Townspeople soon knew that the little boy, whose huge eyes and rudimentary physique gave him somewhat the look of a tadpole, was already composing music. At 13, he wrote his first opera. At 18, he went to Berlin to study with Engelbert Humperdinck (Hansel and Gretel), that same year became conductor of the opera at the small town of Lüdenscheid...