Weills mengvorm van klassiek, jazz en populaire deuntjes zorgt voor wervelend muziektheater. Historische anmerkungen zu einer unterschatzten repertoireoper. The production by berlins staatsoper housed temporarily and somewhat inadequately in the schillertheater. Performance information synopsis recordings press clippings kim h. Neues theater di lipsia il 9 marzo 1930 personaggi leokadja begbick contralto o mezzosoprano fatty, il contabile tenore trinity moses baritono jenny hill soprano jim mahoney tenore jack obrien tenore bill, detto pennybankbilly baritono. Editions for the rise and fall of the city of mahagonny. Text by bertolt brecht, elisabeth hauptmann, and kurt weill. Einige richtlinien scene from original production, leipzig, 1930. Cantata per sei voci soliste e piccolo complesso strumentale.
Vocal score sheet music book by kurt weill 19001950. The rise and fall of the city of mahagonny by bertolt brecht. The operas premiere in leipzig was disrupted by nazi sympathizers and others hostile to the weimar republic. Kurt weill, bertolt brecht, lotte lenya mahagonny 1972. Oper edition suhrkamp bucher pdf kostenlose download link download aufstieg. Rise and fall of the city of mahagonny is a politicalsatirical opera composed by kurt weill to a german libretto by bertolt brecht. This movement whose most powerful proponent, in the field of theatre, is brecht has until now. Rise and fall of the city of mahagonny opera in 3 acts 1930 in. Rise and fall of the city of mahagonny weillbrecht.
Peter lang, 2005 arbeiten zur editionswissenschaft, 6, 709 pp. The operas premiere in leipzig was disrupted by nazi sympathizers and others hostile to the weimar republic mahagonny is set in a fictional american frontier town. It was first performed on 9 march 1930 at the neues theater in leipzig. Als am rande einer wuste ihr wagen kaputt geht, beschlie. This brecht weill musical, like the threepenny opera and other pieces by those german authors, has been known to englishspeaking audiences by its english title since it was first produced. Rise and fall of the city of mahagonny in searchworks catalog. The play tells the story of the city of mahagonny, founded. Editions of the rise and fall of the city of mahagonny by. The operas premiere in leipzig was disrupted by nazi sympathizers and others hostile to the weimar republic mahagonny is set in a fictional. English kurt weills the rise and fall of the city of mahagonny text by bertolt brecht. Its every man for himself in the newly founded city of mahagonny, devoted to lifes illicit pleasures, where anything goes and the only crime is to run out of money. It makes for quite a good show, with some qualifications. The visuals long on the garbage piles and ominous mechanical structures that increasingly populate european stagings come, along with copious dancers.