The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 15, 2011

Runtime

2h 18m

Genres

Music, Drama

Original Title

The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

Production Companies

Bel Air Classiques, Teatro Real de Madrid

Director

Andy Sommer

Description

A hard-hitting new production of Kurt Weill’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny by the Catalan collective La Fura dels Baus at the Teatro Real de Madrid. Composed in the 1930s by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, this is a mordant satire on capitalism and the inexorable industrialisation of a society in which the ultimate crime is not having money. In twenty scenes the authors tell the story of a city lost in the middle of a desert and run by three thugs; in Mahagonny food, sex, gambling and violence rule supreme.