The world premiere of Weill's Street Scenes was announced as part of the NY Phil's season. Last night, Bravo presented a three hour opera titled Street Scene (written in 1946). Based on Elmer Rice's play, this opera by Kurt Weill combines jazz, blues, spirituals, & jitterbug and lyrics by Harlem poet Langston Hughes to paint a portrait of life in a New York City tenement. (3:00) HDTV German production 1995 It's dated. I didn't find it very engrossing. It does have the Ice Cream Cone song, which praises ice cream. That's a truth that still rings true... Susan