Kurt Weill unleashed his entire musical and dramatic arsenal in this astonishing and decadent opera, which he wrote in his early twenties. The... Kurt Weill was one of the 20th century's most ...

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht underwent many changes between 1929 and 1931 as it opened in various German cities. Nazis and other fanatics staged violent ...

The Greek National Opera is now presenting Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s iconic opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, from 12 April 2024 and for a run of six performances, at the Stavros ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Marxist playwright Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill, who together created "The Threepenny Opera" and its hit song "Mack the Knife", intended their follow-up, "The Rise and ...

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It certainly is difficult: As the bodies pile up — death by uninhibited pleasure, or by the simple inability to pay a bar tab — sympathy is hard to come by. So are happy endings. And yet Ivo van ...

Kurt Weill unleashed his entire musical and dramatic arsenal in this astonishing and decadent opera, which he wrote in his early twenties. The... Decadence and Decay: Kurt Weill's 'Mahagonny' ...

Greeted, as will be its eternal fate, by a rousing round of cheers and an impressive chorus of dissent, the steel-edged masterpiece of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht howled its way into the Music ...