The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

Name: The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Director: Brian Large
Genre: Music
Released: 1998-01-01
Duration: 2 h 36 min
Rating: 6.2
Cast: Gwyneth Jones, Wilbur Pauley, Catherine Malfitano, Jerry Hadley, Udo Holdorf

1998

2h 36m

Music

Director: Brian Large

Writer: Bertolt Brecht

Overview

Depicts the consumerism of the mythical city of Mahagonny, conveying all its ripe decadence. A Hollywood Babylon full of pyramidal towers, carved elephants, commodified sex and licensed gluttony. An opera in three acts, live from the Salzburger Festspiele, 1998. Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies. Stage Director: Peter Zadek.