The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

November 15, 2011

Original language

English

Spoken languages

english

Countries

Spain

Production

Teatro Real de Madrid,Bel Air Classiques

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

Homepage

Official site