Kurt Weill: Street Scene

Overview

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