Weill: Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny / Henschel, White, Heras-Casado [Blu-ray]
Conductor: Pablo Heras-Casado | Composer(s): Kurt Weill | Stage Direction : Alex Ollé, Carlus Padrissa – La Fura dels Baus | Performer(s): Michael König, Donald Kaasch, Measha Brueggergosman, Willard White | Orchestra/Ensemble: Madrid Teatro Real Orchestra | Label: Bel Air Classiques | Picture format: 16:9, Full HD | Sound format: PCM Stereo / Dolby Digital 5.1 / DTS 5.1 | File host: Share-online.biz | 5% recovery record + 2 .rev files | Run time: 138 min | 44.7 GB
Language(s): English | Subtitle(s): English, French, German, Spanish
Conductor: Pablo Heras-Casado | Composer(s): Kurt Weill | Stage Direction : Alex Ollé, Carlus Padrissa – La Fura dels Baus | Performer(s): Michael König, Donald Kaasch, Measha Brueggergosman, Willard White | Orchestra/Ensemble: Madrid Teatro Real Orchestra | Label: Bel Air Classiques | Picture format: 16:9, Full HD | Sound format: PCM Stereo / Dolby Digital 5.1 / DTS 5.1 | File host: Share-online.biz | 5% recovery record + 2 .rev files | Run time: 138 min | 44.7 GB
Language(s): English | Subtitle(s): English, French, German, Spanish
A hard-hitting new production of Kurt Weill’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny by the Catalan collective La Fura dels Baus at the Teatro Real de Madrid. Composed in the 1930s by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, this is a mordant satire on capitalism and the inexorable industrialisation of a society in which the ultimate crime is not having money. In twenty scenes the authors tell the story of a city lost in the middle of a desert and run by three thugs; in Mahagonny food, sex, gambling and violence rule supreme.
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The production by Alex Ollé and Carlus Padrissa, both of La Fura dels Baus, combines enormous inventiveness, joy and energy with awe-inspiring ferocity.
Perfect casting brings together a group of singers – Measha Brueggergosman, Michael König, Jane Henschel and Willard White – who are also marvellous actors.
The Teatro Real Orchestra and Chorus are directed by young Spanish conductor Pablo Heras-Casado, who actually began his career at the Teatro Real. In November 2010, he received the “El Ojo Crítico” prize, awarded annually to Spain’s most outstanding artists in the classical music field.
CAST
Leocadia Begbick - Jane Henschel
Fatty "the Bookkeeper" - Donald Kaasch
Trinity Moses - Willard White
Jenny Smith - Measha Brueggergosman
Jim Maclntyre - Michael König
O’Brien/Higgins - John Easterlin
Bank-Account Bill - Otto Katzameier
Alaska-Wolf Joe - Steven Humes
Works on This Recording
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny by Kurt Weill
Performer: Michael König (Tenor), Donald Kaasch (Tenor), Measha Brueggergosman (Voice), Willard White (Bass), Jane Henschel (Mezzo Soprano), John Easterlin (Voice), Otto Katzameier (Baritone), Steven Humes (Bass)
Conductor: Pablo Heras-Casado
Orchestra/Ensemble: Madrid Teatro Real Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1928; Berlin, Germany
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