‘Street Scene’ the Broadway opera
What can you do when the air is so hot that the milk is going sour and you live in an overcrowded apartment with tenants who are stricken with poverty, alcoholics or worse, murderers? Kurt Weill’s “Street Scene” based on Elmer Rice’s Pulitzer Prize winning play asks that same question. Based in New York during the late 1940’s, “Street Scene” is exactly that: an attempt to present a moment in the life of the working class. It is a glimpse… Read more
