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"From Nazi Berlin to James Bond: The mysterious world of Lotte Lenya
As Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny returns to the stage, what became of the woman who first brought it to life?
In everything she did, Lotte Lenya left behind a compound of wilfulness, pain, aggression and wild, effusive charm. The singer and actress was a contradiction: one could speak of her as a creature of 'obvious mystery and still make sense.
After years of coming close to fame, confirmation of her celebrity arrived in a villainous guise with the 1963 James Bond film *From Russia with Love*, the second in the franchise. Described in advance by Esquire as the 'miscasting of the year', Lenya’s ghastly, sadistic (and lesbian) Rosa Klebb proved an inspired choice, from the chewed-off hairstyle to the toxic knife blade concealed in her shoe. She enjoyed remarking that people looked with apprehension at her footwear ever afterwards.
Rosa Klebb aside, she is best known for her professional and personal partnership with Kurt Weill. This week, **, the satirical opera Weill wrote with Bertolt Brecht, is being revived at the London Coliseum for English National Opera, with Danielle de Niese in the role of Jenny, the pragmatic prostitute originally played by Lenya.
Pragmatism was a skill Lenya developed from an early age."
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Die #dreigroschenoper speelt weer in de theaters. Ook vandaag, op de 41e sterfdag van #LotteLenya. Wij namen dit lied eruit, Seeräuber Jenny, jaren geleden op in de Tapes studio in Amsterdam: https://winterwinter.bandcamp.com/track/seer-uber-jenny
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Musical Interlude: Listened to some Kurt Weill today, and remembered this track from his wife, Lotte Lenya, a song I find immensely lovely and comforting all at once.
"Speak Low," performed by Lotte Lenya.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jULhrwOmGOY
#MusicalInterlude #Jazz #KurtWeill #LotteLenya #OneTouchOfVenus #LoveSong
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Musical Interlude: Ever feel indecisive? Can't settle on something? Kurt Weill understood, and wrote a great justification for it. Here it is, by the great diva herself.
"The Saga of Jenny," performed by Lotte Lenya.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4oU7THKC5E
#MusicalInterlude #LotteLenya #KurtWeill #IraGershwin #LadyInTheDark #Broadway
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Via Neville F Chamberlain @NevilleFChambe1
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#LotteLenya #BOTD in 1898, photographed here with Daniela Bianchi, Ian Fleming, Lois Maxwell and Sean Connery at a publicity event for the #JamesBond film “FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE” (1963) -
« #LotteLenya. Pourquoi je souffre tant ? », sur #Arte.tv : la muse transatlantique du compositeur #KurtWeill https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2024/08/13/lotte-lenya-pourquoi-je-souffre-tant-sur-arte-tv-la-muse-transatlantique-du-compositeur-kurt-weill_6279686_3246.html
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3 things about José Quintero’s THE ROMAN SPRING OF MRS. STONE [1961]
1. “When the time comes when nobody desires me for myself, I’d rather not be desired at all.”
2. She counters with $750 but Mrs. Stone holds firm at $500.
3. Folding the set of keys into her handkerchief.This ought to be better known. No matter how you interpret the ending, it's incredible.
#3things #movies #italy #warrenbeatty #lottelenya #tennesseewilliams #cinema #CinemaMastodon
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#Bales2023FilmChallenge December 22: #mathematics on #MathematicsDay in India
Mahagonny (1980) is film maker, artist, musicologist, and alchemist #HarrySmith's mathematical analysis of #MarcelDuchamp's masterpiece The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, aka The Large Glass (1923). It is set to #Brecht and #Weill's #opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny from 1930.
#AllenGinsberg #LotteLenya #JonasMekas #PattiSmith #film #cinema #CineMastodon #ExperimentalFilm @film @art_film
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Ted Tocks Covers
Mack the Knife
Originally posted on October 14, 2019
It was fifty years ago today that the entertainment world learned of the death of Bobby Darin. One of his most famous songs was a cover of 'Mack the Knife’.
“Now on the sidewalk, huh, huh, whoo sunny morning, un huh
Lies a body just oozin' life, eek
And someone's sneakin' 'round the corner
Could that someone be Mack the Knife?”
