The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Royal Opera, ROH, Covent Garden, March 2015.
Posted on 11 March 2015This is not an easy work to stage, emerging as it does from two slightly incompatible attitudes, by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, as to its eventual form. Its genesis lay in a series of songs — the Mahagonny Gesänge — published by Brecht in April 1927, which inspired Weill to fulfil a commission he …