Organization

Festival Aperto

Singer

Tenor

Matthias Koziorowski

Fatty der Prokurist

Conductor

Christopher Franklin

Stage director

Henning Brockhaus

Set designer

Margherita Palli

Costume designer

Giancarlo Colis

Lighting designer

Alessandro Carletti

Choreographer

Valentina Escobar

Chorus master

Martino Faggiani

Christopher Lemmings

Toby Higgins

Mezzo-soprano

Alisa Kolosova

Leokadja Begbick

Chris Merritt

Baritone

Zoltán Nagy

Trinity Moses

Tobias Hächler

Jimmy Mahoney

Jack

Horst Lamnek

Bill

Bass

Jerzy Butryn

Roxana Herrera Díaz

Six girls from Mahagonny

Elizabeth Hertzberg

Yulia Tkachenko

Cecilia Bernini

Kamelia Kader

Mariangela Marini

Spoken

Filippo Lanzi

Commentator

Soprano

Nadja Mchantaf

Jenny

Others

Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma

Orchestra

Orchestra dell'Emilia Romagna Arturo Toscanini (OERAT)

Teatro Regio di Parma

Teatro Valli di Reggio Emilia

Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny -  (Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny)

Reggio Emilia

Italy

Teatro Municipale Valli

In an imaginary American city, God consigns its licentious citizens to hell but they truculently reply that they are already there. Mahagonny ‘the city of nets’ is founded in the desert by three criminals on the run from the police. It is to be a city devoted to pleasure. The only god is money. So Jimmy Mahoney, the hedonistic lumberjack, is condemned to death for being unable to pay the bill for the whisky he has consumed.
 
A testament to the fertile but fraught collaboration between composer Kurt Weill and man of theatre Bertolt Brecht, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny is one of the great operas of the 20th century. Brecht might have resented the dominance of the music over the words but together they created a work with rich melody and unstoppable dramatic momentum.  The expressionistically grotesque trial scene leads inexorably to the hit-tune finale where Mahagonny’s citizens stage mass demonstrations. Director Henning Brockhaus takes inspiration from artist Edward Hopper’s painting of mythical America. For him, the citizens of Mahagonny are a constant threatening presence, like the uneasy shadows in a Hopper’s painting which evokes the dystopia of rampant capitalism.

Streamed on OperaVision on 30 April 2022 at 20:00 CET and available until 30 July 2022 2022:
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CAST

Tobby Higgins: Christopher Lemmings
Leokadja Begbick: Alisa Kolosova
Fatty: Chris Merritt
Trinity Moses: Zoltan Nagy
Jenny Hill: Nadja Mchantaf
Jimmy Mahoney: Tobias Hächler
Jack O’Brien: Matthias Frey
Bill: Simon Schnorr
Joe: Jerzy Butryn
Narrator: Filippo Lanzi
Citizens of Mahagonny: Roxana Herrera, Elizabeth Hertzberg, Yuliia Tkachenko, Cecilia Bernini, Kamelia Kader, Mariangela Marini
Chorus: Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma
Orchestra: Orchestra dell Emilia-Romagna "Arturo Toscanini"

Music: Kurt Weill
Text: Bertolt Brecht
Conductor: Christopher Franklin
Director: Henning Brockhaus
Set Designer: Margherita Palli
Costume Designer: Giancarlo Colis
Lighting Designer: Pasquale Mari
Choreographer: Valentina Escobar
Chorus Master: Martino Faggiani

Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny Weill

Public

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

Approved

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