Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s political satire at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Los Angeles Opera’s production of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s delightfully subversive political satire about three criminals who create a city where lawlessness and hedonism are the main occupations and the only crime is to run out of money is being billed as a “risqué new production as controversial as the original one banned by the Nazis in the 1930s.” That’s a little hard to believe; after all, is there really anything that can shock a 2007 audience? Repressive Nazi audiences, however, were a different matter, and Mahagonny was banned in 1933 and did not have a significant production until the 1960s. The marvelous score, a striking blend of ragtime, jazz, music hall and opera best known for “Moon of Alabama,” is still a winner, and the story — an allegory about political and moral corruption — remains eternally relevant. Music Center, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion; Sat. & Thurs., Feb. 17 & 22, 7:30 p.m.; thru March 4; $30-$220. (213) 972-8001 or www.LAOpera.com. See Alan Rich’s review on page TK.
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