Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny (English National Opera) Verdict: Out-of-date cynicism and nihilism Rating: Perhaps this overlong, underwhelming Brecht/Weill collaboration seemed to be at the ...

There was little that Harry Smith regarded as unworthy of his attention, and less that escaped his notice. “No matter where he was, Harry found the treasures of the world under his feet — heard things ...

Whatever setting Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht might have envisaged for their 1930 satire, it is safe to say it wasn't the Usher Hall. Their Mahagonny is a "spiderweb" city luring weary prospectors ...

The Royal Opera House is a fundamentally unsuitable space for its otherwise impressive production of the satire on capitalism, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. By Alexandra Coghlan Welcome to ...

The text is barbed, ironic and challenging, the score richly textured and glitteringly seductive. But the great majority of attempts to give it theatrical life have fallen flat – in recent memory, it ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Where is the fabled city of Mahagonny? The set for English National Opera’s new production of Rise and Fall of ...

WHEN Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht followed up their hugely successful Three penny Opera with this satire on consumerism, it wasn't altogether successful. The hyper-inflation of the Weimar Republic in ...

Jette Parker Young Artists successfully meet the challenges of this tough Brecht-Weill double bill head-on Thanks to the mysteries of numerology, there are only seven deadly sins. I’ve always thought ...

The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny reveals how a city founded on corruption tears itself apart Telegraph Opera Critic, Nicholas Kenyon, is an author and academic, and former Controller of ...