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.
Stars: Jane Henschel, Donald Kaasch, Willard White, Measha Brueggergosman, Michael König, John Easterlin
Crew: Bertolt Brecht (Lyricist), Kurt Weill (Songs), Andy Sommer (Director), François Duplat (Producer), Kurt Weill (Musical), Pablo Heras-Casado (Conductor)
Country: Spain
Language: English
Studio: Bel Air Classiques, Teatro Real de Madrid
Runtime: 138 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Nov 15, 2011
IMDb: 10
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