Name: Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny
Start: 2015-03-10T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2015-04-04T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Opera House

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Organization

Mezzosopran

Anne Sofie von Otter

Witwe Leokadja Begbick

Tenor

Peter Hoare

Der Prokurist

Bariton

Willard White

Dreieinigkeitmoses

Sopran

Christine Rice

Jenny Smith

Kurt Streit

Jimmy Mahoney

Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts

Jacob Schmidt

Darren Jeffery

Sparbüchsen Billy

Bass

Neal Davies

Alaska Wolf Joe

Hubert Francis

Tobby Higgins

Dirigat

Mark Wigglesworth

Regie

John Fulljames

Assistant Director

Greg Eldridge

Anush Hovhannisyan

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Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny

London

Vereinigtes Königreich

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (German: Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny) is a political-satirical opera composed by Kurt Weill to a German libretto by Bertolt Brecht.

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Associate Director of The Royal Opera John Fulljames introduces his new production of Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. Find out more at http://www.roh.org.uk/mahagonny


The three-year genesis of Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny) spanned the entire partnership between Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill – one of the most fruitful and shortest musical collaborations of the 20th century. The great success of their first work together, the Mahagonny Songspiel (1927), encouraged the two to adapt it into a full-length opera. But progress stalled as the two men discovered their theories were developing in deeply divergent directions: Brecht eager to pursue the disjointed effect of his theories of epic theatre, Weill looking for ways to unify very different styles of music. Concerns from first the publishers and then producers over the work's 'depravity' further increased the disruption. The riot at the opera's premiere on 9 March 1930 was the beginning of the end of Weill's career in Germany.

The troubled development of Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny only adds to the work's extraordinary power as one of the most unsettling and provocative of all operas. This is Weill at his most brilliant and inventive, incorporating popular song in the 'Alabama Song', neoclassicism in the terrifying 'Hurricane fugue' and soaring romanticism in the exquisite 'Crane Duet'. The Royal Opera's Associate Director of Opera John Fulljames directs The Royal Opera’s first production of the work in collaboration with designer Es Devlin (Don Giovanni, Les Troyens). They focus on Brecht and Weill's stinging critique of consumerism while finding new relevance in our insatiable depletion of the earth's resources.

John Fulljames on Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (The Royal Opera)

Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny by Weill, Sa. 28 März 2015, Ab (2015/2015), Unter der Regie von John Fulljames,, Dirigat Mark Wigglesworth, Royal Opera House, London, Vereinigtes Königreich

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