Ballade von der sexuellen Hörigkeit – Song of Sexual Slavery
Weill – Berio
YEAR OF COMPOSITION:
1967
YEAR OF REVISION:
1972
TEXT:
Bertold Brecht
LANGUAGE:
German
SCORED FOR:
alto and ensemble
RUNNING TIME:
3'
ANNOTATIONS:
From Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera) by Kurt Weill (1928).
Instrumentation: cl, bass cl, acc, vib, vln, vla, vc, cb
Available for low alto (original key), and for high alto (transposed)
FIRST PERFORMANCE:
1967, Venice. Cathy Berberian (MS)
PUBLISHER:
Universal Edition