The Rise and Fall of the City of MahagonnyWelcome to Mahagonny, where sin is 'in' and love is always on sale. This Old West boomtown rises from the desert to become a razzle-dazzle mecca for lust and the pursuit of pleasure, where cash is king and poverty is punishable by death. |
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Riots greeted the first performances in 1930 , and the opera's powerful negative example of a Paradise - city filled with victims makes just as vital an attack today . Specific corruptions and specific villainies don't matter : the ...
Riots greeted the first performances in 1930 , and the opera's powerful negative example of a Paradise - city filled with victims makes just as vital an attack today . Specific corruptions and specific villainies don't matter : the ...
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Still , the opera can hardly be mistaken for anything but a harsh attack on many values and institutions of contemporary society . Brecht himself realized that the mechanism of opera production might temper his text's astringency ...
Still , the opera can hardly be mistaken for anything but a harsh attack on many values and institutions of contemporary society . Brecht himself realized that the mechanism of opera production might temper his text's astringency ...
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climax , and the arguments , both for and against Brecht , which had greeted Threepenny Opera were predictably repeated . Even now , however , supposed commercial demands and timorous producers began to strangle Brecht's attempt to make ...
climax , and the arguments , both for and against Brecht , which had greeted Threepenny Opera were predictably repeated . Even now , however , supposed commercial demands and timorous producers began to strangle Brecht's attempt to make ...
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