A Lost Landmark of American Musical Theater
Filmed Live for Broadcast
LOVE LIFE (Film)
A Vaudeville in Two Parts
Music and lyrics by Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner
Book by Alan Jay Lerner
A live performance by Opera North in Leeds, England, recorded in January 2025, broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and now available as a film. The production was nominated for a 2025 International Opera Award in the inaugural Musical Theatre category.
*this link is a sampling of pre- color grade excerpts
They never age. America does.
Love Life follows Susan and Sam Cooper and their children across 150 years of American history. As the world transforms around them, their marriage is stretched by shifting roles, economic pressures, and the evolving trappings of modern life. Between scenes, satirical vaudeville acts punctuate the story, exposing the fault lines within the marriage at its center.
Two worlds share the stage.
A fully realized vaudeville world of color and spectacle contrasts with a stripped-back stage where the mechanics of performance are exposed. Lighting rigs and scaffolding shift and evolve, charting the relentless march of progress.
The result is a staging that is both visually dynamic and conceptually clear—equally compelling on screen and on stage.
The complete work, at last.
The full cast recording, the first ever of the complete work, won the German Record Critics Award for outstanding "opera" recording in March 2026.
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