Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny: Festival d’Aix‐en‐Provence
About the Event
A work banned by the Nazi regime in 1933, this timeless metaphor of the greatness and ultimate debauchery of the capitalist system has never been more relevant. Brecht's scathing text and Weill's jazz sounds combine to offer us one of the finest political and social fables of the 20th century.
Sung in german with french and english subtitles.
Cast / Production
Music Direction — Esa‐Pekka Salonen
Director — Ivo van Hove
Set Design and Lighting — Jan Versweyveld
Costumes — An d'Huys
Video — Tal Yarden
Dramaturgy — Koen Tachelet
Leokadja Begbick — Karita Mattila
Fatty, der 'Prokurist' — Alan Oke
Dreieinigkeitmoses — Sir Willard White
Jenny Hill — Annette Dasch
Jim Mahoney — Nikolai Schukoff
Jack O'Brien / Tobby Higgins — Sean Panikkar
Bill, genannt Sparbüchsenbill — Thomas Oliemans
Joe, genannt Alaskawoljoe — Peixin Chen
Ensemble Pygmalion
Philharmonia Orchestra