Weill's Musical Theater: Stages of Reform

In the first musicological study of Kurt Weill’s complete stage works, Stephen Hinton charts the full range of theatrical achievements by one of twentieth—century musical theater’s key figures. Hinton shows how Weill’s experiments with a range of genres—from one—act operas and plays with music to Broadway musicals and film—opera—became an indispensable part of the reforms he promoted during his brief but intense career. Confronting the divisive notion of “two Weills”—one European, the other...