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Lotte Lenya
Lenya, Lotte
The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
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Lenya, Lotte [née Karoline Blamauer] (1900–81), actress and singer. Best known as the wife of composer Kurt
Weill and as Jenny in the 1954 revival of his
Threepenny Opera, she was born in Vienna and was a popular cabaret and musical star in Berlin before the advent of the Nazis forced her to flee Germany. Lenya appeared in several of her husband's works in Germany, including creating the role of Jenny in 1928. Her first American appearance was in
The Eternal Road (1937), followed by
Candle in the Wind (1941), Weill's
The Firebrand of Florence (1945), and
Barefoot in Athens (1951). She later appeared in
Brecht on Brecht (1962), and as Freulein Schneider in
Cabaret (1966). Her “steel‐file voice” made her the definitive interpreter of her husband's songs.
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Analysis: Recording of Louis Armstrong and Lotte Lenya singing "Mack The Knife"
Transcript from: Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR); 10/25/2003; ; 445 words
; ...Recording of Louis Armstrong and Lotte Lenya singing "Mack The Knife" Host...Louis Armstrong ever made with Lotte Lenya. The renowned cabaret singer was...has pretty teeth, dear. Ms. LOTTE LENYA: (Singing) And he shows them...
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THE ICONOGRAPHIC LOTTE LENYA
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 4/23/1989; ; 700+ words
; LENYA: A Life, Donald Spoto. Little, Brown. 371 pp. $19.95. Illustrated. Lotte Lenya was a great artist whose performing career...Cabaret" didn't have to do because Lenya was there to be what they wished to dramatize...
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The lusty, gutsy life of Lotte Lenya, on stage and off
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 6/4/1989; ; 700+ words
; Lenya A Life. By Donald Spoto. Little, Brown...lucky enough to have seen her in the role, Lotte Lenya will always be Jenny, the hard-hearted...Berlin during the Weimar Republic, that Lenya probably came closest to playing herself...
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Arts: One octave below laryngitis Lotte Lenya was Kurt Weill's muse, sang like a cement mixer and defined an era. Robin Baker marks her centenary
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 10/13/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...all of Mack's conquests - Suky Tawdry, Jenny Diver, Lotte Lenya, Sweet Lucy Brown - and did so with all the tedious...of her sensible shoes. "That," Dad replied, "is Lotte Lenya." Her portrayal of the Soviet agent Rosa Klebb was...
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REISSUE OF LOTTE LENYA ALBUMS ON CD IS A DISASTER
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 5/21/1989; ; 700+ words
; ...Theater Songs of Kurt Weill made by Lotte Lenya. After the death of Weill in 1950...The Threepenny Opera" in 1954, Lenya made these recordings, first released...a two-record set called "The Lotte Lenya Album" with the famous Richard...
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Whole Lotte Lenya
Magazine article from: The Village Voice; 10/20/1998; ; 506 words
; ...married to the squawky soprano-Lotte Lenya by name-for the bulk of his adult...that "all my melodies come to me in Lenya's voice" The frail-looking body...unnoticed: Overlook Press has issued Lenya: The Legend, a lavish "pictorial...
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Midler to star as Lotte Lenya
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 4/14/1987; 292 words
; ...film biography of stage actress Lotte Lenya, Tri-Star Pictures has announced...Brown & Co. The book delves into Lenya's relationship with composer Kurt...wonderful experience to portray Lotte Lenya," Midler said.
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Classical: Will the real Kurt Weill now please stand up? His music has survived the effect of the Nazis, Broadway and Lotte Lenya. But only just.
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 10/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...us filtered through the voice of Lotte Lenya, Weill's wife twice over: they...married again in New York in 1937. Lenya sang Jenny in the world premiere...for her. After Weill's death, Lenya undertook a more or less solo crusade...
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Prince positions Weill-Lenya tuner.(Harold Prince to bring "Love Music", the story of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Daily Variety; 12/30/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Music" about "the very complex, funny and romantic relationship" between composer Kurt Weill and his wile, singer Lotte Lenya. The book of the show, which features the music of Weill, will be written by Alfred Uhry, with whom Prince worked...
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Weill: The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. (Lotte Lenya, Wilhelm Bruckner Ruggeberg, Berlin Orchestra)
Magazine article from: National Review; 9/16/1988; ; 586 words
; ...Twenties, when Central Europe was preparing itself for Hitler. Beyond their social commentary, they are good theater. Lotte Lenya, who is the lead singer, is no Gertrude Lawrence, but the backing she gets from soloists, chorus, and orchestra...
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Lotte Lenya
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Lotte Lenya , 1898-1981, Viennese singer and character...The wife of the composer Kurt Weill , Lenya was the foremost singer of his songs. She...Brecht on Brecht, Mahagonny, and Cabaret. Lenya has also made recordings and films (including...
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Lenya, Lotte
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
Lenya, Lotte [ née Karoline Blamauer ] (1900–81), actress and...star in Berlin before the advent of the Nazis forced her to flee Germany. Lenya appeared in several of her husband's works in Germany, including creating...
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Weill, Kurt
Book article from: Contemporary Musicians
...and Emma (maiden name, Ackermann) Weill; married Lotte Lenya Blamauer, January 28, 1926. Education: Took piano...featured role of a prostitute named Jenny was played by Lotte Lenya Blamauer, whom Weill had married in 1926. The opera...
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Weill, Kurt (Julian)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
...not experience it. Brecht's lyrics and the singing of Lotte Lenya , who became Weill's wife, were significant factors...before 1921 and are available for study at the Weill/Lenya Research Center, NY. They include an orch. suite in...
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Die Dreigroschenoper
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...Fritz Rasp (Peachum ); Valeska Gert (Mrs. Peachum ); Lotte Lenya (Jenny ); Hermann Thimig (Vicar ); Ernst Busch (Street...Anthologie du cinéma 4, Paris, 1968. Eisner, Lotte, The Haunted Screen, Berkeley, 1969. Masterworks of...
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