 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 |
| Dataset |
AusStage |
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