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Toronto: VOICEBOX: Opera in Concert has posted scenes from “The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny”
Saturday, October 24, 2020
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Picture it: A crew of ne'er-do-wells sets off to found a city where everyone is free to do as they please. Vice and iniquity rule the streets of Mahagonny and soon the word spreads and the population booms.
But the sun sets on all good things and excess leads to tragedy. It all comes to a head when a crew of lumberjacks show up in the midst of a financial crisis for the city. There's whisky, women, and even a hurricane: all great ingredients for a work such as this.
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY OF MAHAGONNY by Kurt Weill with a libretto by his genius partner, Bertolt Brecht recently celebrated its 90th anniversary. Here are some great archival scenes from our 2019 production.
Stay tuned for more and be on the lookout for our playbill coming up.
RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY OF MAHAGONNY
By Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht
Performed: March 30 and 31, 2019
JANE MALLETT THEATRE
St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, Toronto
Music and Chorus Director - Robert Cooper, C.M.
Music Collaborator and Pianist - Narmina Afandiyeva
Dramatic Advisor, Lighting Designer - Guillermo Silva-Marin
featuring
VOICEBOX: Opera In Concert Chorus
CAST
Speaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sean Curran
Fatty . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joshua Clemenger
Trinity Moses . . . . . . . . . . . Evan Korbut
Leokadja Begbick . . . . . Beste Kalender*
Jenny Smith . . . . . . .Elizabeth DeGrazia*
Jimmy Mahoney . . . . . . .Michael Barrett*
Jack Schmidt . . . . . . . . . . .Cian Horrobin
Billy. . . . . . . . . . . . .Danlie Rae Acebuque
Joe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sebastien Belcourt
Toby Higgins. . . . . . . . Edward Larocque
* by permission of the Canadian Actors' Equity Association
View HERE.