This is show I would love to see - Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at the Los Angeles Opera. It's starring two of my favorite actresses and singers, Patty LuPone and Audra McDonald.
I performed in a local production of the show at West Bay Opera a few years ago. It's one of those operas that are almost musical theatre. That's why performers like LuPone and McDonald get the roles. One of the cool things about the show is that The Doors actually took a couple of the numbers and turned them into rock songs including "Alabama Song".
The opera company provides a nice synopsis of the play here.
| What: | Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny Four-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald stars in a new production of Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, one of the great 20th-century operas. From composer Kurt Weill and playwright Bertolt Brecht, the creators of The Threepenny Opera, comes a savage and lyrical satire told in a highly entertaining blend of opera and raucous music hall songs, conducted by Music Director James Conlon. Tony Award winners Patti LuPone and John Doyle, star and director of this season's hugely acclaimed Broadway revival of Sweeney Todd, reteam for their Company debuts, joined by acclaimed tenor Anthony Dean Griffey. It's every man for himself in the newly founded city of Mahagonny, devoted to life's illicit pleasures, where anything goes and the only crime is to run out of money. The brilliant score, featuring the classic song "Moon of Alabama," masterfully creates a vivid picture of determination, desperation and debauchery. |
| When: | Saturday, February 10, 2007 3:00 PM to Sunday, March 4, 2007 4:00 PM |
| Where: | Los Angeles Opera 135 North Grand Avenue Los Angeles, California 90012 |
Tickets..
PRODUCTION DATES:
Saturday
February 10, 2007
7:30 p.m.
Wednesday
February 14, 2007
7:30 p.m.
Saturday
February 17, 2007
7:30 p.m.
Thursday
February 22, 2007
7:30 p.m.
Sunday
February 25, 2007
2:00 p.m.
Thursday
March 1, 2007
7:30 p.m.
Sunday
March 4, 2007
2:00 p.m.
Thanks for the tip, will put it on the schedule. Greetings from Costa Mesa. jwb
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