Stage Door: The Road of Promise

German composer Kurt Weill was no stranger to Nazi harassment. A prominent and popular Jewish composer, he fled to Paris in 1933. Well known for his theater hits, such as The Threepenny Opera and Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, he soon headed to the safety of New York. In 1937, the Manhattan Opera House debuted his lavish production The Eternal Road, an opera-oratorio in four acts, with libretto by Franz Werfel, created to alert the public to Hitler's persecution of the Jews. The U.S. pr...