Name: Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny
Start: 2022-09-09T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-11-18T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Opera Ballet Vlaanderen

Organization

Conductor

Alejo Pérez

Stage director

Ivo van Hove

Set designer

Jan Versweyveld

Lighting designer

Costume designer

An D'Huys

Video designer

Tal Yarden

Christopher Ash

Chorus master

Jan Schweiger

Singer

Tenor

Leonardo Capalbo

Jimmy Mahoney

Soprano

Tineke Van Ingelgem

Jenny

Katharina Persicke

Mezzo-soprano

Maria Riccarda Wesseling

Leokadja Begbick

James Kryshak

Fatty der Prokurist

Baritone

Thomas Oliemans

Bill

Frederick Ballentine

Jack

Toby Higgins

Bass

Marcel Brunner

Elisa Soster

Six girls from Mahagonny

Sandrine Mairesse

Chia-Fen Wu

Raphaële Green

Kadi Jürgens

Jessica Stakenburg

Ecem Topcu

Dramaturge

Koen Tachelet

Zachary Altman

Trinity Moses

Opera Ballet Vlaanderen

Others

Choeur Opéra Vlaanderen

Orchestra

Symfonisch Orkest Opera Ballet Vlaanderen

First girl

Second girl

Third girl

Fourth girl

Fifth girl

Sixth girl

Dutch

Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny -  (Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny)

Luxembourg

Grand Théâtre

Ghent

Belgium

Opera Gent (Operagebouw)

Antwerp

Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny

Public

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

English

Approved

Accordionist

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Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

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Flutist

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Musette de cour Player

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Tenor Violinist

Timpani

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Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

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Choir

Choreographer

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Composer

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Executive producer

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Hairstylist

Illustrator

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Orchestra Operations

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Contralto

Bass-baritone

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

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Kurt Weill's jazzy opera tells the story of a trap town where pleasure counts as the only law. What seems like paradise quickly turns into hell.

Socially relevant musical theatre for one's own time – this was Kurt Weill's aim when he composed Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny. Out of the blue, three criminals on the run establish a new city, Mahagonny, a 'trap of a city' that thoroughly exploits humanity's vices and lust for pleasure, accumulating a fortune in the process. Gradually this paradise of consumption turns into a hell in which pleasure and lust form the only moral law and where everything is permitted as long as you pay. For Ivo van Hove, director of a new production of Mahagonny, the jazzy opera by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht is more urgently relevant than ever. In a clean visual style, which focuses on the unclear boundary between the real and the virtual, he traces a link between the social crisis of the late 1920s and today. Van Hove: "We live in a time when divisions have never been so great. We are witnessing a new class struggle."

Maatschappelijk relevant muziektheater voor de eigen tijd, daar was het Kurt Weill om te doen bij de compositie van Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny. Drie voortvluchtige criminelen stichten out of the blue de nieuwe stad Mahagonny, een ‘valstrikstad’ die de menselijke ondeugden & zucht naar genot ten volle exploiteert en er haar fortuin op bouwt. Geleidelijk verwordt dit consumptieparadijs tot een hel waarin plezier en lust de enige morele wet vormen en waarin alles is toegestaan zolang je maar betaalt. Voor Ivo van Hove, regisseur van een nieuwe productie van Mahagonny, is de jazzy opera van Kurt Weill en Bertolt Brecht urgenter dan ooit. In een visueel strakke stijl, die inzet op de onduidelijke grens tussen het reële en het virtuele, slaat hij de brug tussen de maatschappelijke crisis van de late jaren 1920 en vandaag. Van Hove: ‘We leven in een tijd waarin de verdeeldheid nog nooit zo groot is geweest. We zijn getuigen van een nieuwe klassenstrijd.’

Nederlands

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny by Weill, Thu 29 Sep 2022, From (2022/2022), Directed by Ivo van Hove,, Conductor Alejo Pérez, Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, Antwerp, Belgium

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