AUFSTIEG UND FALL DER STADT MAHAGONNY Comes to Theater Basel

Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny, an opera in three acts, with music by Kurt Weill and text by Bertolt Brecht, will premiere in August. Performances will run beginning August 28.

A town is founded in the middle of the desert. In Mahagonny, everything is allowed as long as you can pay - «but something is missing!». To escape the emptiness, the characters eat and drink themselves to death, fuck and punch themselves in the grave.

Only in Jim Mahoney does the idea of a more humane existence quietly niggle. Between pub songs and avant-garde sounds, quotes from classical music and dance music, Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill built a capitalist paradise in 1930 that is destroyed by its own promises.

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