Weill: Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

"Show me the way to the next whisky bar…" The city of Mahagonny is a place of endless possibility and unbridled pleasure; a town where anything can be bought, for a price, and the only cost of admission is your conscience. Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht conceived their great Weimar era satire as a grand opera. Unashamedly cynical and irresistibly tuneful, it demands total musical and dramatic commitment, and in this dazzling 2010 production from Madrid that's precisely what it receives. Pablo Heras-Casado conducts a cast that stars Willard White as Trinity Moses and Jane Henschel as Leocadia Begbick.