The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
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.
By Barbara Kraft • • 1 min readOpera 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.
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