27-28.June 2021, Porgy & Bess, Vienna, Austria
21. July 2021, Galicia Jewish Museum, Krakow, Poland
28.October 2021, Synagoge Hagen, Germany
In 1927 the world premiere of “Mahagonny – ein Songspiel” took place as a commission for the music festival “Deutsche Kammermusik Baden-Baden”. It was Kurt Weill’s first collaboration with Bertolt Brecht. Caspar Neher designed the stage set as a boxing ring, Brecht directed it – the performance evokes enthusiasm from the critics as well as protests from the audience. Shortly thereafter, the score was withdrawn, and Brecht and Weill began developing the three-act, full-length opera “Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny” from the material. The “Songspiel” in its original form is still an extremely rarely performed work (press release)
Funded by the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism, the Future Fund of the Republic of Austria, the Federal Ministry for Art, Culture, Public Service and Sport, the City of Vienna
We would like to thank:
HE Ralf Beste, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany
H.E. Mordecai Rodgold, Ambassador of the State of Israel
A new production by “Musiktheater Wien eV”
Bruno Berger-Gorski: production
Anna Sushon: conductor
Anna Kreinecker: equipment
Tadeusz Krzeszowiak: light
with Ethel Merhaut, Victoria Hotjanov, Franz Gurtschmied, Wolfgang Resch, Shlomi Wagner, Ognjen Milivojsa, Zoryana Kushpler, Gail Gilmore
Chamber opera by Kurt Weill/ Bertolt Brecht and arias by Kurt Weill
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