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Rise and fall of the city of Mahagonny / Kurt Weill.
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950, composer, composer.
- Standardized Title:
- Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Operas.
- Genre:
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (2 hr., 27 min., 30 sec.)) : sound, colo
- Other Title:
- Met Opera on Demand.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] : [Metropolitan Opera], [1979]
- Language Note:
- Sung in English; English subtitles; translated from the German.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- digital
- video file streaming video file
- Summary:
- John Dexter's brilliant production, James Levine's masterful conducting of the eclectic score, and a sensational cast come together to make this Kurt Weill--Bertolt Brecht masterpiece a riveting evening of music theater. At the center of the action is Jimmy Mahoney (Richard Cassilly), a logger who stumbles onto the city of Mahagonny, where (almost) anything is allowed. Teresa Stratas gives a mesmerizing performance as Jenny, the prostitute who takes up with Jimmy, until he is executed for the greatest of all crimes in Mahagonny--to not have any money. The legendary Astrid Varnay, in her final Met appearances, is Leocadia Begbick, and Cornell MacNeil sings Trinity Moses.
- Contents:
- Opening credits
- Hey, we've got to keep going ; So we'll stay right here and build our town
- Alabama song: Oh, show us the way to the next whisky bar
- We live in giant cities
- Off to Mahagonny
- When you have landed in a strange place
- I've learned in my trade
- Fatty, and Moses
- Jimmy, what's up with you, where are you going?
- That's what I'd call eternal art
- Oh dire threat of disaster
- Nr. 11, Brothers be steadfast!
- No, I'm telling you ; Let no man assure you that you will be reborn
- Hurricane approaching Atsena
- First on the list is "fill your belly"
- Next of course is "getting laid"
- See how those herons fly, wheeling and turning
- Now for the prize fight
- Hurry boys, the drinks are on me
- I will tell you how my mother raged at the sight of my empty purse
- When the sky grows brighter
- Have all these people paid for their admission?
- Now I will open the general hearing now
- There is no money in this town
- Good morning Jimmy Mahoney - Dearest Jenny
- One cold and gloomy afternoon
- Still we only built this Mahagonny
- Bows and closing credits.
- Participant:
- Teresa Stratas ; Astrid Varnay ; Richard Cassilly ; Cornell MacNeil ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; James Levine, conductor.
- Credits:
- Director, John Dexter.
- Notes:
- Recorded live in 1979 at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, New York.
- Description based on vendor-supplied metadata.
- OCLC:
- 859396307
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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