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In the organizer's words:

A musical journey with Lotte Lenya & Kurt Weill

Marie Oser (voice) and Boris Gurevich take you on a musical journey that follows the life stages of the Jewish composer Kurt Weill and his most famous interpreter Lotte Lenya. In songs and texts, the program takes you from the brilliant start in Berlin in the 1920s to exile in Paris and Broadway. It tells the story of the couple's love through Kurt Weill's compositions, a love that had to withstand persecution and flight. Entertaining and vivid, it brings a piece of contemporary German history to life and also focuses on the fates of female artists in the Weimar Republic and in exile. It evokes the power of believing in one's own ability to take life into one's own hands and shape it again and again.

And here is the teaser: www.marie-oser.de/video

Marie Oser

Marie Oser is a singer and storyteller. She collects songs and combines them with texts and presentations to create new stories. With her clear, powerful and sensual mezzo-soprano, she interprets chansons and songs from musical theater in German, French and English. She supplemented her classical vocal training with pop lessons and thus opened up different worlds of sound and styles. In her concerts, she combines musical interpretation with conversation, storytelling and scenic presentation, always present and in contact with her audience. www.marie-oser.de

Boris Gurevich

Originally from Kazan, he studied piano and composition at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. He continued his training at the Academy of Music in Jerusalem and at the University of Maryland, USA. He worked at the Washington Opera, the Opera Camerata and at George Manson University as a répétiteur. Subsequent engagements have taken him to the International Opera Studio in Zurich and the Aalto Theater in Essen, where he has worked as a répétiteur since 2000/2001. He also gives concerts with singers and instrumentalists and has performed as a soloist with the Bochum Symphony Orchestra and the Essen Philharmonic Orchestra, among others. In September 2005, his composition "Monodia" was premiered with great success by the Essen Philharmonic under Stefan Soltesz as part of the symphony concerts. In the 2017/2018 season, another of his compositions, "Prayer for Rain" ("Tefilat geshem"), a concerto for cello and orchestra, was premiered with the Essen Philharmonic. He has been working with Marie Oser since the beginning of 2024.

Duration: 2 hours with interval. Admission: full price € 18.00, students / unemployed (with valid certificate) € 12.00 and pupils up to 18 years € 10.00, wheelchair users with companion: € 22.00