Organization

Conductor

Daniel Johannes Mayr

Set designer

Carola Reuther

Video designer

Ruth Stofer

Dramaturge

Bernhard Helmich

Elise Schobeß

Assistant director & evening director

Maximilian Reisinger

Musical assistance

Elia Tagliavia

Studienleitung

Pauli Jämsä

Korrepetition

Miho Mach

Ana Crăciun Lambru

Stage Design Assistant

Ansgar Baradoy

Inspector

Barbara Schroeder

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Susanne Blattert

Leokadja Begbick

Tenor

Martin Koch

Fatty der Prokurist

Baritone

Giorgos Kanaris

Trinity Moses

Soprano

Natalie Karl

Jenny

Matthias Klink

Jimmy Mahoney

Matthew Peña

Jack

Toby Higgins

Mark Morouse

Bill

Bass

Tobias Schabel

Dirk Kaftan

Stage director

Volker Lösch

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Max Karbe

Robi Voigt

Chorus master

Marco Medved

Stefan Schnabel

Neele Kramer

Alma Sadé

Theater Bonn

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Choir of the Bonn Theater

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Beethoven Orchester Bonn

German

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

Bonn

Germany

Opernhaus

Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny

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Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

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The conductor Gustav Brecher, between 1914 and 1933 the General Music Director of the Opera in Leipzig, was a courageous decision maker. As late as March, 1933, he dared to present Kurt Weill’s DER SILBERSEE (The Silver Lake) – a performance that he could not finish conducting owing to the Nazis in the audience’s continual disturbance.

There had already been similar scenes on March 9, 1930, when Brecher brought into being THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY OF MAHAGONNY, one of Kurt Weill’s most successful works, in collaboration with the author of his libretto, Bertolt Brecht. In the house a throng of Nazi supporters raised such hell against the work that the performance came close to being cut short. Weill, Brecht and Brecher, independently of each other, left Germany as outcasts in 1933. Fleeing to the US by way of France, the composer found his way to a new musical language and partially was able on Broadway to continue his earlier string of successes. When he passed away in 1950 in New York, he was by no means forgotten in Germany, and his works, THE THREEPENNY OPERA and THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY OF MAHAGONNY, were back in the repertory there, works to which he himself,from his forced exile on and, most certainly, after he, in 1943, became an American citizen, did not feel any longer much of an attachment.

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny by Weill, From (2022/2023), Directed by Volker Lösch,, Conductor Daniel Johannes Mayr, Dirk Kaftan, Opernhaus, Bonn, Germany

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