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Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Opera in three acts
Kurt Weill
Ingo Metzmacher | Dirigent
Jérôme Deschamps | Regie
Olivia Fercioni | Bühne
Vanessa Sannino | Kostüme
Elisabeth Kulman | Leokadja Begbick
Tomasz Konieczny | Dreieinigkeitsmoses
Angelika Kirchschlager | Jenny Hill
Christopher Ventris | Jim Mahoney (Johann Ackermann)
The story of Mahagonny begins with three criminals on the run from the law. They decide to found a city where people can do anything as long as they have money. Anything goes in Mahagonny--drinking, gambling, sex--and the town is soon populated by various kinds of hedonists. Two characters, Jenny, a prostitute, and Jimmy, a lumberjack, become lovers and generally dominate the plot. Mahagonny survives a typhoon at the end of act 1, and act 2 depicts various scenes of debauchery, until Jimmy discovers that he cannot pay his bills. Then he is sentenced to death (in a court where murderers go free), and discontent destroys the city, which burns as the inhabitants march away carrying placards of protest, although they have nowhere to go.
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