Weill - Love Life | Capriccio C5550

Weill - Love Life

£23.70

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Label: Capriccio

Cat No: C5550

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 3rd October 2025

Contents

Artists

Quirijn de Lang
Stephanie Corley
Themba Mvula
Justin Hopkins
Tilly Baker
Lottie Gray
Will Hopkins
Joshua da Costa
Amber Midgley
Felicity Moore
Andrew Randall
Louie Stow
Masimba Ushe
Orchestra and Chorus of Opera North

Conductor

James Holmes

Works

Weill, Kurt

Love Life

Artists

Quirijn de Lang
Stephanie Corley
Themba Mvula
Justin Hopkins
Tilly Baker
Lottie Gray
Will Hopkins
Joshua da Costa
Amber Midgley
Felicity Moore
Andrew Randall
Louie Stow
Masimba Ushe
Orchestra and Chorus of Opera North

Conductor

James Holmes

About

As a concept musical, Love Life was a real trailblazer, inspiring musical theatre favourites of the 1960s, 70s and beyond from Cabaret and Chicago (originally subtitled “A Musical Vaudeville”) to Sondheim’s Company (told through a series of vignettes). It is “one of Weill’s best scores” (conductor Jim Holmes), a masterpiece of putting different musical styles together, “a compendium of American musical idioms, cunningly chosen so that they suit the dramatic material”. Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner teamed up in 1947, both riding high on recent successes (Street Scene for Weill, Brigadoon for Lerner) and looking for new projects. When Love Life premiered on Broadway in 1948, Weill called it “an entirely new form of theatre.” Stephen Sondheim denoted it as “a useful influence on my own work.”

Principal cast:
- Samuel Cooper: Quirijn de Lang
- Susan Cooper: Stephanie Corley
- Magician & Interlocutor: Themba Mvula
- Hobo: Justin Hopkins

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