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Release Date:
November 15, 2011
Original Title:
The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Genres:
Drama | Music
Production Companies:
Bel Air Classiques
Teatro Real de Madrid
Production Countries:
Spain
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 138
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.
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Conductor:
Pablo Heras-Casado
Director:
Andy Sommer
Lyricist:
Bertolt Brecht
Musical:
Kurt Weill
Producer:
François Duplat
Songs:
Kurt Weill
Stage Director:
Álex Ollé
Carlus Padrissa
Writer:
Bertolt Brecht
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