Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (English): Olle & Padrissa, Heras-Casado / Madrid So (Teatro Real), W.White, Brueggergosman, etc (2010 Stereo)

Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny - sung in English
Music by Kurt Weill, Libretto by Bertolt Brecht

Jane Henschel (Leocadia Begbick)
Donald Kaasch (Fatty the Bookkeeper)
Willard White (Trinity Moses)
Measha Brueggergosman (Jenny Smith)
Michael Konig (Jim Maclntyre)
John Easterlin (Jack O’Brien / Toby Higgins)
Otto Katzameier (Bank-Account Bill)
Steven Humes (Alaska-Wolf Joe)
Coro Intermezzo
Orquesta y Coro del Teatro Real
Orquesta Sinfonica de Madrid
Pablo Heras-Casado, conductor

Stage direction: Alex Olle, Carlus Padrissa - La Fura dels Baus
Scenography: Alfons Flores
Costumes: Lluc Castells
Lighting: Urs Schonebaum

High Definition recording : Teatro Real - Madrid: 09/2010
Total timing : 138 minutes

Bel Air present the hard-hitting new production of Kurt Weill's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny by Catalan collective, La Fura dels Baus, from the Teatro Real de Madrid. Composed in the 1930s by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, this is a mordant satire on capitalism in a society in which the ultimate crime is not having money. In 20 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.