Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

2 hr 18 min | Performing Arts, Critically Acclaimed | 2011

Composed in the 1930s by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, this opera is a satire on capitalism and the inexorable industrialization of a society in which the ultimate crime is not having money. Twenty scenes tell the story of a city lost in the desert and run by thugs; in Mahagonny food, sex, gambling, and violence rule supreme. Recorded at the Teatro Real de Madrid.