Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny: A Trumpian 'Hellhole' Opera

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny: A Trumpian 'hellhole' opera

The ENO bring Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s opera to the Coliseum as a dystopia for our times

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny review – ENO

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ENO: Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny –London Coliseum

Writer: Bertolt Brecht Composer: Kurt Weill Director: Jamie Manson Conductor: André de Ridder In 1920s Berlin, the composer Kurt Weill hung out with the likes of Alban Berg and Arnold Schoenberg, fellow composers who, while tremendously significant in the history of music and powerful advocates of New Music and twelve-tone techniques, were never focussed on [...] The post ENO: Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny –London Coliseum appeared firs…

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny - ENO ★★★★

Suitably attired for some opera on a cold and rainy night, it’s back to the London Coliseum for a look at another one of the productions being offered as part of the English National Opera‘s winter season. The ENO has provided audiences with a wide variety of shows over the colder months, including crowd-pleasing Gilbert & Sullivan and Mozart operas, but it is also putting on a very short run of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s satirical expositi…