The Lindbergh Flight & The Seven Deadly Sins

composer, Kurt Weill & writer, Bertolt Brecht

Opera de Lyon, 2006
François Girard, Director

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These two rarely performed cocreations by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht were both conceived as experimental genre hybrids, The Lindbergh Flight (1929) being styled as a “radio cantata”, The Seven Deadly Sins (1933) as a ballet chanté.

Add in the celebrated boldness of Opéra National de Lyon – who also double as a ballet company – and the bold, vision of Québécois director/screenwriter François Girard and the stage is set for a rich confluence of styles.

Sue Wilson, Evening Standard, 2006

” François Seguin’s clever sets provide stylistic unity, a transatlantic map with video behind for the flight, while in The Sins Anna’s

fundraising tour is pitched against a grid of the US with moving images of the allcorrupting greenback. “

Francis Carlin Published: June 26 FT.com

Girard’s direction, along with François Séguin’s mapinspired sets, Thibault Vancraenenbroeck’s colourful costumes and David Finn’s dramatic lighting, breathed life into the piece. It made a cold foil to the frenzy of the second half and, taken as a whole, there could be no mistaking what Brecht thought of the American way of life and the evils of capitalism.

Rod Biss | Published on March 8, 2008 New Zealand Listener