The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

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Barbara Kraft

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Opera usually involves intrigue, love and death. There's all that plus an indictment of capitalist society in Brecht and Weill's The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, opening Saturday at Los Angeles Opera. Barbara Kraft joins conductor James Conlon and others for a discussion about the relevance of this 1930s opera in today's world.

Opera usually involves intrigue, love and death. There's all that plus an indictment of capitalist society in Brecht and Weill's The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, opening Saturday at Los Angeles Opera. Barbara Kraft joins conductor James Conlon and others for a discussion about the relevance of this 1930's opera in today's world.

Guests:

James Conlon: conductor of the Los Angeles Opera
Philip Kennicott: culture critic for the Washington Post
Thomas May: author, editor, essayist and critic