The Orchestra of St. Luke’s will join New York’s Collegiate Chorale for the U.S. premiere of a new concert version of Kurt Weill and Franz Werfel’s 1937 The Road of Promise at Carnegie Hall on May 6. The piece is an adaptation of Weill and Werfel’s spectacle, The Eternal Road. Conductor and director Ted Sperling will lead the combined forces in the work, which combines a story about a synagogue under threat of persecution with stories from the Old Testament. The performance also will feature video projections by Wendall Harrington and lighting design by Frances Aronson. A second performance on May 7 will be preceded by a talk in partnership with the Museum of Jewish Heritage, with Sperling in conversation with Ed Harsh, who created the concert adaptation, to discuss the background, history, and music of Road of Promise. Cast members include actor Ron Rifkin, vocalists Anthony Dean Griffey, Mark Delavan, and Philip Cutlip, and finalists and winners of the Weill Foundation’s Lotte Lenya Competition.
Posted May 4, 2015
