The Seven Deadly Sins (ballet chanté)
| Die sieben Todsünden The Seven Deadly Sins | |
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| Sung ballet by Kurt Weill | |
Cover of a recording with Lotte Lenya | |
| Description | satirical ballet chanté |
| Librettist | Bertolt Brecht |
| Language | German |
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The Seven Deadly Sins (German: Die sieben Todsünden, French: Les sept péchés capitaux) is a satirical ballet chanté ("sung ballet") in seven scenes (nine movements, including a Prologue and Epilogue) composed by Kurt Weill to a German libretto by Bertolt Brecht in 1933 under a commission from Boris Kochno and Edward James. It was translated into English by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman and more recently by Michael Feingold. It was the last major collaboration between Weill and Brecht.