Special offer. Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins
Magdalena Kožená (mezzo), Andrew Staples, Alessandro Fisher (tenors), Ross Ramgobin (baritone), Florian Boesch (bass-baritone), London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle
It’s a lyric Anna who takes to the road for seven years prey to seven deadly sins, though there’s an exciting lurch into that broken tone that was Lenya’s vocal calling card when we reach Envy....
Special offer. Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins
Magdalena Kožená (mezzo), Andrew Staples, Alessandro Fisher (tenors), Ross Ramgobin (baritone), Florian Boesch (bass-baritone), London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle
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It’s a lyric Anna who takes to the road for seven years prey to seven deadly sins, though there’s an exciting lurch into that broken tone that was Lenya’s vocal calling card when we reach Envy....
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Released in collaboration with the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music in New York and coinciding with celebrations of Sir Simon Rattle's 70th birthday in January 2025, the London Symphony Orchestra's signature label will release a new recording of Weill's stinging critique of capitalist society, 'The Seven Deadly Sins'.
Featuring soloists such as Magdalena Kožená, Andrew Staples and Florian Boesch, this adds to Rattle's acclaimed series of opera recordings on LSO Live.
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Awards and reviews
February 2025
It’s a lyric Anna who takes to the road for seven years prey to seven deadly sins, though there’s an exciting lurch into that broken tone that was Lenya’s vocal calling card when we reach Envy. And the family ’s Barber Shop Quartet in Gluttony drips with irony.
February 2025
[Kožená] deploys her idiosyncratic operatic mezzo with remarkable confidence and no lack of character, apparently channelling advice from veteran chansonnier HK Gruber.
