No trains stop at the city of Mahagonny, on the Gulf coast of the U.S., and no steamers list it as a port of call. But to informed, between-wars German theatergoers, the imaginary town was a metropolis of almost legendary fameĀa strange amalgam of jazz-age New Orleans and beer-cellar Berlin.
The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny was not the most successful stage work of Playwright Bertolt Brecht and Composer Kurt Weill (The Threepenny Opera has consistently attracted more attention), but it was by all odds their most ambitious collaboration. At...
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