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Weill: Der Kuhhandel
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NR (Not Rated) :: Phoenix Edition ::
Released:
2008-09-30
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5/5
Near Perfect
by David DN (Haight Ashbury, Earth)
This is a first rate production that's well recorded. Great singing, dance, and brilliant choral numbers.
This fairly obscure work, rarely produced until recently, comes from just about the middle of Weill's career. Written in Paris, shortly after the composer fled Nazi Germany, there are major references to the evils of German fascism in particular and governments in general.
The original libretto also satirized unscrupulous US capitalism, in the person of a crooked arms dealer who personifies early globalization, interfering with and destabilizing the lives of simple people. That and the fact that this is neither a museum piece favored by opera houses nor something that could ever pass for "cutting edge", makes it seem unlikely there will ever be a major production in America.
Der Kuhhandel is a beautiful operetta (echos of Offenbach, with a waltz to match Lehar). If Weill's later Broadway output seems at odds with his German work this score provides as good a bridge as you will find--there are some elements of both here.
Sound and video for live performances have come a long way in the past couple of decades. Unfortunately, as with other video recordings of Weill productions, the sound gets a little muddy at some of the most breathtaking and complex orchestral/choral moments (but then that's what studio-recorded CDs are for I suppose).
Now if someone could just produce and film Weill and Paul Green's anti-war musical-tragicomedy Johnny Johnson (another of Weill's very clever and charming and mostly unknown scores.)
5/5
On the Road with Weill from Brecht to Broadway
by Richard Chilson (Minneapolis, MN United States)
Kuhlhandel was a disaster originally and has only begun to be given a second hearing recently. This production has travelled to a number of European theaters. What was the problem? Undoubtedly the book - politics seldom plays well as operetta.
But the music? You will immediately recognize the Weill style. Much of it seems like the earlier works such as Three Penny Opera, but softened. It is somewhere between Happy End and Lost in the Stars. A lot of the score sounds like variants on his other works. Indeed I wonder whether the producers didn't crib some of the music from elsewhere. But there is some wonderful music to be found here. Weill's gifts for melody are here in abundance. If you really like Weill you should enjoy this piece.
The singers on the whole are very good to acceptable. The production doesn't try to inflict some extraneous element onto the play: it's about a boy and his cow versus the brutal state. But forget about the book and settle back and enjoy Weill's gifts from waltz to tango, from song to ensemble - it is a glorious night of song and hopefully this DVD will spur other productions.
Weill: Der Kuhhandel Summary
Kurt Weill: Der Kuhhandel DVD Techincal Details
Cast:
Rolf Haunstein
,
Robert Vambery
,
Ursula Pfitzner
,
Michael Kraus
Aspect Ratio:
1.77:1
Rated:
NR (Not Rated)
Running Time:
138 mins
UPC:
811691018034
Binding:
DVD
Studio:
Phoenix Edition
Release Date:
2008-09-30
Region Code:
0
Specs:
AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Language & Subtitles
German (Original Language - Dolby Digital 2.0), Dutch (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled),
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