Kurt Weill: Street Scene

The opera takes place on the doorstep of a tenement on the East Side of Manhattan on two brutally hot days in 1946. The story focuses on two plotlines: the romance between Rose Maurrant and her neighbor Sam Kaplan; and on the extramarital affair of Rose's mother, Anna, which is eventually discovered by Rose's irritable father, Frank. The show portrays the ordinary romances, squabbles and gossips of the neighbors, as the mounting tensions involving the Maurrant family eventually build into a tragedy of epic proportions. Broadcast on BBC Two on New Years Day, 1993, this production was performed by the English National Opera and conducted by James Holmes.

Cast

Janice Cairns Anna Maurrant

Lesley Garrett Rose Maurrant Kevin Anderson Sam Kaplan Mark Richardson Frank Maurrant

Daniel Ison Willie Maurrant

Terry Jenkins Abraham Kaplan

Richard Halton Harry Easter

Keel Watson Henry Davis

Philip Gould Dick McGann

Caroline O'Connor Mae Jones

Anthony Mee Lippo Fiorentino

Christine Bunning Greta Fiorentino

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