Kurt Weill Festival: Street Scene

With a score that blends operatic arias and ensembles, show tunes and dance numbers, jazz and blues, and dramatic dialogue, Kurt Weill's Street Scene is a passionate, emotionally charged portrait of family and communal life among the multi-ethnic working-class and immigrant inhabitants of a crowded New York City tenement. Centered on the life-changing events of one oppressively hot summer day, Street Scene illuminates the tensions, despair, hopes, and dreams of this melting-pot community.