Gosse & Glamour – Echo der Moderne
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- Theaterhaus, Siemensstr. 11, 70469 Stuttgart
Many Kurt Weill songs are world-famous and some have become jazz standards such as "Speak low", "My Ship" or "Mack the Knife". In Germany, people usually only remember the works from his creative phase before he fled to America: The Threepenny Opera or the Mahagonny Songspiel. His Broadway works such as "Street Scene" or "One Touch of Venus" or "Lady in the Dark" are rarely heard in this country.
What does all this have to do with ORSO (Orchestra & Choral Society e. V.)? The founder of ORSO is Wolfgang Roese, who was born in Kippenheim. He now lives in Berlin, the city where Kurt Weill created the "Threepenny Opera". Kurt Weill's parents, Albert and Emma, lived in Kippenheim, just two houses away from where Roese grew up. Albert was the cantor at the synagogue in Kippenheim. It was there that the ORSOvocals launched an extraordinary performance entitled "Gosse & Glamour" last summer. It began in the synagogue, then the choir and orchestra sang, danced and played their way through the village, stopping off in the courtyard of the Gasthaus Rindfuß (the Weills' house) before moving on to the Bürgerhaus, where they put on a brilliant show.
ORSOvocals - these are the voices of the ORSOchoir from the Berlin, Stuttgart and Freiburg locations. They slip into the roles of the characters from Weill's oeuvre and bring the wild 1920s and dark 1930s to the stage of the Theaterhaus in a wild revue. Under the direction of Wolfgang Roese at the piano, they perform Kurt Weill's world hits from both his German and American creative phases.
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Saturday, July 11, 2026
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7:30 pm
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Theaterhaus Stuttgart
Siemensstraße 11, 70469 Stuttgart