Katharine Mehrling sings Weill – Muricas News

I’ve been sitting in Cafe Bauer for 2 hours now: should you don’t wish to, say it to your face. That’s why my milk doesn’t go bitter – I don’t give a rattling about you, my darling. Effectively then, not!” Erich Kästner wrote a bitter chanson there. And Kurt Weill was simply the correct particular person to compose the correct music for Miss Erna Schmidt’s offended speech.

Katharine Mehrling is now slipping into the function of the deserted lady on the Komische Oper – and Barrie Kosky is by her facet. However not on the piano like within the profitable tune recital “Lonely Home”, however as a director. As a result of the night with Berlin songs by Kurt Weil, which premieres on March 26 in Behrenstraße, is bigger and extra scenic.

Kai Tietje has written orchestral preparations of the songs, there's a stage design (by Klaus Grünberg) and costume creations by Victoria Behr for the diva of the night in addition to the extras who will buzz round her like moths round a lightweight. Dancer Michael Fernandez may even be there.

“Lonely Home” revolved across the performs Weill wrote whereas in exile in Paris and New York. The brand new night with the title “…and with tomorrow you could possibly me” jumps again to the younger composer and his blissful years in Berlin. Along with songs from the “Threepenny Opera” and from “Completely satisfied Finish”, Katharine Mehrling may even interpret Nanna’s tune, the metropolitan anthem “Berlin im Licht” – and Erna Schmidt’s reckoning with the good-for-nothing lover. By the best way, it goes on like this: “You don’t should suppose that I miss you. With the intercourse with me, that’s over now. I too have one thing of an honor: don’t present up, darling, otherwise you’ll be kicked out!”