The text is barbed, ironic and challenging, the score richly textured and glitteringly seductive. But the great majority of attempts to give it theatrical life have fallen flat – in recent memory, it ...

Brecht and Weill’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny is a satire on money and hedonism written in an age of crisis. So can it rouse a Royal Opera House audience to activism, or will it be ...

The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny is a political and satirical opera based on the pointed political language of Bertolt Brecht, the prominent German poet and dramatist of “epic theatre”, and ...

The star of Royal Opera’s Mahagonny is Es Devlin’s set. Unsuk Chin’s Alice is lost in music. And Jeremy Denk delivers sparkling Bach Food, sex, money, whisky, in that order, chant the men of Mahagonny ...

“Don’t let false hope blind you,” the ensemble sings to the audience near the end of Los Angeles Opera’s new production of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s “The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny.” ...

The LA Opera production of The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny has won th GRAMMY Award for Best Classical Album. The LA Opera production of The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny premiered ...

But that would be indulgent, too much like fun, or even the "culinary" entertainment of conventional opera disparaged by Bertolt Brecht when he later distanced himself from the performing version of a ...

Experience the thrill of watching opera from the Royal Opera House in the comfort of the Tivoli Theater (6350 Delmar Boulevard, in The Loop, St. Louis, MO, 63130) thanks to the ‘Royal Opera House at ...

The Korea National Opera will present its production of "Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny" for four days from July 11 to 14. It is the first time this musical satire on capitalism, written by ...

WHEN Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht followed up their hugely successful Three penny Opera with this satire on consumerism, it wasn't altogether successful. The hyper-inflation of the Weimar Republic in ...