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Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny
Opera in 3 acts by Kurt WeillLibretto by Bertolt BrechtFirst performance on 9th March, 1930 in LeipzigPremiered at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on 17th July 2025
Date details
- Date Saturday, 26/July/2025 20:00 (4 more dates)
- Venue Deutsche Oper Berlin
- Address Bismarckstraße 35, 10627 Berlin-Charlottenburg
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Part of:
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny – Stan Hema
© Stan Hema
Benedikt von Peter's production brings the RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY OF MAHAGONNY to life: not only the stage but also the foyer of the Deutsche Oper Berlin are used, the audience is part of a huge entertainment machine that inexorably tips over into an apocalyptic game ... Conductor: Stefan Klingele; Director: Benedikt von Peter; With Evelyn Herlitzius, Thomas Cilluffo, Markus Brück, Annette Dasch, Nikolai Schukoff and others.
About the workEverything begins with the foundation of a city. Less the fruit of an ideal than the result of zero prospects in life, the city is conceived by the widowed Begbick, Fatty and Trinity Moses as a place that will make them money. Aiming to come out ahead financially for once, they plan to out-fox a system designed to suck them dry. To this end they name their city »Mahagonny, the City of Nets«. Yet the system defies their attempts to out-wit it; the nets net nothing. The people flocking to Mahagonny bring discontent rather than money – first and foremost Jimmy Mahoney, who grimly concludes: »But something’s missing«.
Underpinning Bertolt Brecht’s and Kurt Weill’s »didactic work« is a deep disillusionment. The atmosphere of the piece is summed up in the song »We lost our big old mama«. The protagonists aim to fail as a team in their radical and nihilistic project: stuffing their faces and boozing, shagging and brawling till they drop. Only to Jimmy Mahoney is it given to ponder on existential matters, grappling with the key issues of our age: How do we want to live? And: what is community?
About the productionBenedikt von Peter’s production makes RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY OF MAHAGONNY an up-close and personal experience. The action extends from the stage to the foyer of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and all points in between. The audience become part of a 3-dimensional entertainment construct that is inexorably morphing into an apocalyptic game.
About the workEverything begins with the foundation of a city. Less the fruit of an ideal than the result of zero prospects in life, the city is conceived by the widowed Begbick, Fatty and Trinity Moses as a place that will make them money. Aiming to come out ahead financially for once, they plan to out-fox a system designed to suck them dry. To this end they name their city »Mahagonny, the City of Nets«. Yet the system defies their attempts to out-wit it; the nets net nothing. The people flocking to Mahagonny bring discontent rather than money – first and foremost Jimmy Mahoney, who grimly concludes: »But something’s missing«.
Underpinning Bertolt Brecht’s and Kurt Weill’s »didactic work« is a deep disillusionment. The atmosphere of the piece is summed up in the song »We lost our big old mama«. The protagonists aim to fail as a team in their radical and nihilistic project: stuffing their faces and boozing, shagging and brawling till they drop. Only to Jimmy Mahoney is it given to ponder on existential matters, grappling with the key issues of our age: How do we want to live? And: what is community?
About the productionBenedikt von Peter’s production makes RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY OF MAHAGONNY an up-close and personal experience. The action extends from the stage to the foyer of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and all points in between. The audience become part of a 3-dimensional entertainment construct that is inexorably morphing into an apocalyptic game.
Artists/Collaborators: Stefan Klingele (Musikalische Leitung), Benedikt von Peter (Inszenierung), Caterina Cianfarini (Mitarbeit Regie), Katrin Wittig (Bühne), Romy Rexheuser (Mitarbeit Bühne), Geraldine Arnold (Kostüme), Bert Zander (Video), Benjamin Schultz (Klangdesign), Silvia Roth (Dramaturgie), Carolin Müller-Dohle (Dramaturgie), Jeremy Bines (Chöre), Evelyn Herlitzius (Leokadja Begbick), Thomas Cilluffo (Fatty), Markus Brück (Dreieinigkeitsmoses), Annette Dasch (Jenny Hill), Nikolai Schukoff (Jim Mahoney), Kieran Carrel (Jack O'Brian), Artur Garbas (Bill), Padraic Rowan (Joe), Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin (Chöre), Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin (Orchester)
45 minutes before beginning: Introduction (in German language)
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