Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Douban
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny
opening date:
2015-03-10
~ 2015-04-04
genre:
Opera
theater:
Royal Opera House
director:
John Fulljames
playwright:
Bertolt Brecht
composer:
Kurt Weill
actor:
Anne Sofie von Otter
/
Peter Hoare
/
Willard W. White
/
Christine Rice
/
Anna Burford, Lauren Fagan, Anush Hovhannisyan, Stephanie Marshall, Meeta Raval, Harriet Williams
/
Kurt Streit
/
Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts
/
Darren Jeffery
/
Neal Davies
/
Robert Clark
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny
overview
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny) is a political-satirical opera composed by Kurt Weill to a German libretto by Bertolt Brecht. It was first performed on 9 March 1930 at the Neues Theater in Leipzig.