Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

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Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

A major work from the remarkable partnership of playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill, Mahagonny was first performed in Leipzig in 1930. Its first ever Royal Opera staging, by Associate Director of Opera John Fulljames, is sung in English and conducted by Mark Wigglesworth – recently announced as the successor to Edward Gardner as Music Director of English National Opera. Mahagonny is a satire on money, morality and pleasure-seeking among the dubious citizens of a fictional city. The richly varied, jazz-infused score, influenced by ragtime music, includes such irresistible melodies as the ‘Alabama Song’ and many dramatic ensembles. The superb cast includes Kurt Streit as the wild lumberjack Jimmy, Christine Rice as his sweetheart Jenny, Anne Sofie von Otter in a welcome return to the Royal Opera as the cunning Leokadja Begbick, and Peter Hoare and Willard W. White as her helpers and fellow-fugitives Fatty and Moses.

Kurt Weill | Opera in three acts
Sung in English | Running time: c3 hours (including 2 intervals)

Jenny Smith ~ Christine Rice
Trinity Moses ~ Willard W. White
Leocadja Begbick ~ Anne Sofie von Otter
Jimmy MacIntyre ~ Kurt Streit
Fatty ~ Peter Hoare
Bank Account Billy ~ Darren Jeffery
Royal Opera Chorus
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Conductor ~ Mark Wigglesworth
Director ~ John Fulljames
Set designs ~ Es Devlin
Lighting design ~ Bruno Poet
Movement ~ Arthur Pita
Not Rated
Genre
Culture Vulture, Opera
Runtime
180
Language
English

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