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Marianne first performed The Seven Deadly Sins in 1989 at St Anne’s in Brooklyn, and since that time she had been “…trying to get the Sins recorded for 12 years, finally when I met Dennis Russell Davies I realised I’d found the right conductor.” Following her successful world tour Songs From The Weimar Republic in 1996 and its attendant album 20th Century Blues, the Seven Deadly Sins was recorded in June 1997 at the Vienna Konzerthaus with the Vienna Radio Symphony orchestra. Marianne performed the W.H. Auden translation, utilising the higher key version of the score which was transposed down an octave.
The album is rounded out with other songs by Brecht and Weill including the ‘Alabama Song’ and songs from The Threepenny Opera: Back in 1991 Marianne had starred as Jenny in the Gate Theater production in Dublin. The partnership between Dennis and Marianne was a critical and commercial success and flourished with numerous concert performances of the opera over the years culminating in a new fully staged production at the Landestheatre in Linz, in October 2012.