Overview
A musical-theatre journey through Kurt Weill, where cabaret, memory, and modern sound collide.
Kurt Weill's Songs of Glass and Iron re-imagines the music of Kurt Weill through a contemporary lens. Kurt Weill (1900–1950) was a German-born composer best known for blending opera, cabaret, and musical theatre, especially through his iconic collaborations with Bertolt Brecht. His music remains celebrated for its dramatic intensity, sharp emotional honesty, and enduring influence on 20th-century vocal repertoire.
Blending iconic songs with newly composed electronic and glass harmonica soundscapes, the performance moves between cabaret, memory, and modern urban life.
Soprano Reilly Nelson and composer-pianist Friedrich Heinrich Kern guide the audience through a sequence of imagined rooms—intimate spaces where love, displacement, labour, and loss are laid bare. Weill’s biting theatricality meets fragile, transparent sound worlds, creating an atmosphere that is at once seductive and unsettling.
Part concert, part music-theatre, Songs of Glass and Iron asks what remains of human intimacy in a world shaped by markets, migration, and forgetting. The result is a powerful, reflective evening that feels both historically grounded and urgently of our time.