Siri Vik: The Seven Deadly Sins

Siri Vik: The Seven Deadly Sins
Sat, Jan 17, 7:30pm & Sun, Jan 18, 3:00pm
The Shedd Institute, Eugene, OR

On the occasion of the 35th annual Oregon Festival of American Music’s celebration of the international cross-currents which helped shape Americn popular music, Siri Vik and colleagues revisit her 2019 faithfully-researched and staged re-creation of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s final collaboration, The Seven Deadly Sins as premiered by George Balanchine’s short-lived dance company, Les Ballets in June 1933 in Paris as Les sept péchés capitaux. The ballet chanté is prefaced by a selection of songs from Mahagonny-Songspiel (1927), The Threepenny Opera (1928), Happy End (1929), and Rise And Fall of the City of Mahogonny (1930).


Join us for Dinners At Six before the evening and after matinée performances!

Thank you to our sponsors, The Eye Center, Collis Wealth Management, and Verda Giustina, for this concert.

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