The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny: And, The Seven Deadly Sins of the Petty BourgeoisieArcade Pub., 1996 - 124 Seiten The two works collected in this volume sprang from the same fruitful collaboration that gave rise to Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera. Both are set in America, but an America of myth. In The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Brecht's parable of greed and indifference, Mahagonny is a boom-town fusing Miami with Sodom and Gomorrah. Founded on the principle that it is easier to prospect gold from people's pockets than from the earth, it is a city threatened with catastrophe but also obsessed with pleasure and the problem of how to pay for it. The Seven Deadly Sins of the Petty Bourgeoisie, Brecht's supremely ironic ballet libretto, is the story of two sisters who in seven years traverse seven cities. In each, one sister is tempted by one of the seven deadly sins. First performed in Paris and London in 1933, with music by Weill and choreography by George Balanchine, it premiered in the United States in 1958 in a production by Balanchine. Of the translations by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman that are reprinted here, Hannah Arendt wrote in 1960 that she knew of "no other adequate rendering of Brecht into English". Arcade's definitive edition also contains an introduction by John Willett and Ralph Manheim, the editors of Brecht's complete dramatic work in English, together with extensive notes and variants. |
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Alabama Song Alaskawolf Joe Annie apron As-You-Like-It Tavern Atsena Auden backcloth Benares Berlin Bertolt Brecht Bill and Joe Billy bitter weather Brecht Chester Kallman chorus City of Mahagonny collaborators concord Devil's stock-pot dollars Downstage drink duet Elisabeth Hauptmann FATTY AND MOSES felled timber gonny half-curtain help a dead hold me back injured party JAKE Jenny Jones Jenny's Jim Mahoney Jim's Jimmies from Alaska Jimmy Gallagher Kurt Weill Lady Begbick Lenya libretto Lovers Maha Mahagonny Song Mandalay means to eat Moon of Alabama musical theatre Neher old mama Paradise City piano score play poem projection raging hurricane rich in hell Rise and Fall scene 11 Seven Deadly Sins seven winters sing sister SIX GIRLS solo someone must kick Songspiel stage direction Suckerville theatre there's Threepenny Opera Trinity Moses typhoon verse W. H. Auden whisky winters of bitter