New Year's Eve Concert at Theater an der Wien | Ossia "Intermezzo with 2 Mezzi" at Theater an der Wien

At the turn of Angelika Kirchschlager and Anne Sofie von Otter through music worlds of Kurt Weill - as a prelude to the premiere of The Threepenny Opera, which will take place on the ten-year anniversary celebrations of the Theater an der Wien as a new Opera House in January 2016.
The Busoni pupil Weill came to pass in Germany of the Weimar Republic on the search for new, contemporary forms of musical theater and experienced with the Threepenny Opera a huge success and with Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny the beginning of organized Nazi riots. Against the "viscosity Wagnerian scores" wanted Weill put a musical theater as a loose sequence of songs inspired by the contemporary dance music by Mozart aria. Programmatically, he turned on "Art as a luxury for a few, chosen people" and declared: "We want a popular art that actually appeals to the masses and at the same time these are provoking the masses to think, to learn and to understand." His performance was this claim after the expulsion from Germany and years of emigration in Paris and London, finally in the United States: Weill was in New York a new home, which also influenced artistic strong him. Elements of blues and spirituals were incorporated into his works, which are increasingly annäherten to the musical. With Street Scene (1947) had Weill finally reaches his great goal of creating an "American opera", and his last completed work, Lost in the Stars (1949), realized on Broadway the experiment a musical tragedy about the racial segregation. 1950 died the composer, who had a "popular art" want to create, as a highly valued "American composer."