menu
Classical Music Daily
  • Latest
    • Sponsored features
    • Games and Puzzles
    • Competitions
    • Classical Music News
    • Live Performance Reviews
    • Obituaries
    • Previews
    • CD Reviews
    • Book news and reviews
    • Resounding Echoes
    • New releases
    • Special series
  • Topics
    • orchestral music
    • vocal music
    • harpsichord music
    • nineteenth century
    • First World War
    • World War II
    • twentieth century
    • opera
    • theatre music
    • choral music
    • music education
    • eighteenth century
  • Places
    • Canada
    • Germany
    • Poland
    • France
    • Austria
    • United Kingdom
    • United States of America
    • Ukraine
    • Georgia
    • Finland
    • Italy
    • Bangladesh
  • Writers
    • Mike Wheeler
    • Paul Bodine
    • John Dante Prevedini
    • Andreas Rey
    • Allan Rae
    • Endre Anaru
    • Geoff Pearce
    • Frances Forbes-Carbines
    • Peter King
    • Gerald Fenech
    • anonymous authors
    • All authors
  • More
    • Comment
    • Get updates
    • Contact us
    • Sponsor
    • Donate
    • Send material
    • Write for us
    • In depth
    • Newsletters
    • About us
    • Your privacy
    • Home page

  • Simone Boccanegra
  • Dohnányi Ernő
  • BIS Records AB
  • Marcello Giordani
  • Nicholas Merryweather
  • Lamentations
  • Herrmann
  • gesture


Benjamin Britten in 1968SPONSORED: Ensemble. Last Gasp of Boyhood. Roderic Dunnett investigates Jubilee Opera's A Time There Was for the Benjamin Britten centenary.
All sponsored features >>

Emile Naoumoff: My Chronicles with Nadia BoulangerPODCAST: Join Jenna Orkin, Maria Nockin, John Daleiden, Gerald Fenech, Julian Jacobson, Patrick Maxwell, Giuseppe Pennisi and Mike Wheeler for a fascinating fifty-minute audio only programme.

The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny ('The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny') is a satirical political opera by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht - a parable of capitalism with its borgeois respectability removed. It was first performed on 9 March 1930 in Leipzig.

A selection of articles about The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

Ensemble. The End of Utopia - 'The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny' by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, reviewed by Giuseppe Pennisi

Ensemble. Marxist Opera - Giuseppe Pennisi was in Berlin for the opening night of a revival of 'The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny'

Ensemble. Lustrous Sounds - Kurt Weill's 'The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny', reviewed by Maria Nockin

  • Latest
    • Sponsored features
    • Games and Puzzles
    • Competitions
    • Classical Music News
    • Live Performance Reviews
    • Obituaries
    • Previews
    • CD Reviews
    • Book news and reviews
    • Resounding Echoes
    • New releases
    • Special series
  • Topics
    • orchestral music
    • vocal music
    • harpsichord music
    • nineteenth century
    • First World War
    • World War II
    • twentieth century
    • opera
    • theatre music
    • choral music
    • music education
    • eighteenth century
  • Places
    • Canada
    • Germany
    • Poland
    • France
    • Austria
    • United Kingdom
    • United States of America
    • Ukraine
    • Georgia
    • Finland
    • Italy
    • Bangladesh
  • Writers
    • Mike Wheeler
    • Paul Bodine
    • John Dante Prevedini
    • Andreas Rey
    • Allan Rae
    • Endre Anaru
    • Geoff Pearce
    • Frances Forbes-Carbines
    • Peter King
    • Gerald Fenech
    • anonymous authors
    • All authors
  • More
    • Comment
    • Get updates
    • Contact us
    • Sponsor
    • Donate
    • Send material
    • Write for us
    • In depth
    • Newsletters
    • About us
    • Your privacy
    • Home page

 

 

All material © 1998-2025 Classical Music Daily,
various authors and photographers.
All rights of the original copyright holders
are reserved, and are credited where known.
Formerly known as Music & Vision –
The world's first daily classical music magazine
Founding Editor: Basil Ramsey (1929-2018);
Editor: Keith Bramich