kurt weill

“Lazy bones are for the Devil’s stockpot…” Read the English text for Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins online, translated by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman.

“Hear the ecclesiastical menace of the family in Sloth,” writes Angus McPherson, “the urgent strings in Anger, the cruel, a capella Barbershop Quartet of Gluttony, the valiant tenor aria in Greed and the devastating triumph of Anna I over Anna II in Envy’s grim march…”