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.
Cast and Creative Team for RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY OF MAHAGONNY at Vienna State Opera
Elisabeth Kulman | Leokadja Begbick
Tomasz Konieczny | Dreieinigkeitsmoses
Angelika Kirchschlager | Jenny Hill
Christopher Ventris | Jim Mahoney (Johann Ackermann)
Tomasz Konieczny | Dreieinigkeitsmoses
Angelika Kirchschlager | Jenny Hill
Christopher Ventris | Jim Mahoney (Johann Ackermann)
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