Event |
Mahagonny-Songspiel
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Venue |
State Opera Studio, Netley, SA |
Umbrella Event |
State OPera of South Australia 1999 Season |
First Date |
1999 |
Opening Date |
1999 |
Last Date |
1999 |
Dates Estimated |
No |
Status |
Professional |
World Premiere |
No |
Description |
Mahagonny is a short epic play which simply draws conclusions from the irresistible decline of our existing social classes. It is already turning towards a public which goes to the theatre naïvely and for fun. Mahagonny-Songspiel, also known as The Little Mahagonny, is a "small-scale 'scenic cantata'" written by the composer Kurt Weill and the dramatist Bertolt Brecht in 1927. Weill was commissioned in the spring to write one of a series of very short operas for performance that summer, and he chose to use the opportunity to create a 'stylistic exercise' as preparation for a larger-scale pro |
Description Source |
Website |
Primary Genre |
Music Theatre
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Secondary Genre |
Opera
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Subjects |
Class Issues
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Organisations |
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Contributors |
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Text Nationality |
Germany
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Production Nationality |
France
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Event Status |
Completed
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Data Source |
Source |
Description |
Web |
State Opera of South Australia Web Archive |
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Event Identifier
| 99997 |
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