Kurt Weill: Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Symphoniker Hamburg / Hamburg International Music Festival
Towards the end of the 1920s, Kurt Weill and author Bertolt Brecht wrote the opera about »Mahagonny« – a fictitious paradise city somewhere in the desert in the USA. Here the biggest crime is not having money; corruption is rampant. For this ruthless critique on society, Weill rummaged through music history and placed numerous quotes in the score – often very ironic, as the work was also meant as a critique of the compliant »culinary opera«.
Performers
Symphoniker Hamburg
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Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet soprano
Thomas Ebenstein tenor
Marcell Bakonyi bass baritone
Nadja Mchantaf soprano
Michael König tenor
Markus Miesenberger tenor
Simon Schnorr baritone
Levente Páll bass
Peter Schmidt Szenische Einrichtung und Ausstattung
conductor Jeffrey Kahane
Programme
Kurt Weill
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny / Oper in drei Akten (Libretto: Bertolt Brecht)
Semi-szenische Aufführung
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Series
Oper konzertant