Royal Road Productions, Inc. conceives, develops, and presents innovative works for the stage and in various media, including audio CD, television, and film.
In 2015, RRP produced a centennial tribute concert at The Town Hall honoring Eric Bentley's 100th year, featuring the world premiere of unpublished Songs for Mother Courage by Darius Milhaud and Eric Bentley. The event was hosted by Michael Riedel and included speeches by Tony Kushner and Austin Pendleton, among others luminaries of the theatre, and the film of this historic event is soon to be released.
Another recent project, Will There Still Be Singing? A Hanns Eisler Cabaret, about the life and times of the Austro-German composer, featuring Eisler's songs with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht in English versions by Eric Bentley, was met with tremendous success in the U.S. at Café Sabarsky, Metropolitan Room, and Princeton University, as well as at a special performance in Berlin at the Brecht-Haus (where the graves of Brecht and Eisler are located).
Royal Road Productions has also presented its innovative programs at Carnegie Hall (Weill), the Goethe Institutes of Boston and Los Angeles, and Symphony Space.
Our upcoming project is to record a new CD, On Hollywood and Weimar: The Songs of European Composers from the Golden Age of Film, featuring soprano Karyn Levitt and pianist Jed Distler.
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