Karyn Levitt wrote the concert-cabaret shows Will There Still Be Singing? A Hanns Eisler Cabaret and On Hollywood and Weimar: Songs of European Composers from the Golden Age of Film and has performed them at JxJ Music & Film Festival in D.C., Off-Broadway’s York Theater, Feinstein’s/54 Below, Cafe Sabarsky, Metropolitan Room, Triad Theater, Princeton University, at cultural venues such as Brecht-Haus in Berlin and Goethe Institut-Boston and related concerts at Vassar, Amherst, and Bates Colleges, as well as Goethe Institut-LA. She is among the leading Lied singers of the highly demanding Eisler repertoire.
About her album, Eric Bentley’s Brecht-Eisler Song Book, music critic Peter Deeg wrote: "Karyn Levitt is able to achieve great poetic beauty by blending the words and the music to form an artful and contradictory whole, at once unusual and touching," (Internationale Hanns Eisler Gesellschaft, 2016). Ms. Levitt looks forward to bringing her shows about Eisler and the other marvelous European film composers to the countries where the composers are from: Germany, Austria, Poland, Ukraine, Hungary, and Italy.
In addition to being a celebrated soprano, Ms. Levitt is a distinguished producer, known for her historic collaboration with Eric Bentley, whose centennial tribute she produced at The Town Hall, now documented in the feature film Honoring Eric Bentley: A Centennial Tribute Concert. Her professional background also includes acting, composing, writing, editing, and performance coaching.