ENO’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny goes for the jugular

The linchpin role is Jimmy Mahoney/MacIntyre, a logger from Alaska, who comes around to feeling that the pleasure city of Mahagonny is the foulest place on earth. The role is punishingly high and ENO ...

Mahagonny Lacks Polish at the English National Opera

Great singing and stirring music come to the rescue of a rather patchy production of Kurt Weill and Berthold Brecht's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny ...