Lust, greed and corruption: The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

By Terry Blain, 16 June 2014

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Reviewed at Olympia Theatre, Dublin, Dublin on 13 June 2014

Weill, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

Opera Theatre Company

David Brophy, Conductor

Lynne Parker, Director

Claudia Boyle, Jenny Smith

Anne Marie Gibbons, Leokadia Begbick

Julian Hubbard, Jimmy Mahoney

Christopher Cull, Billy

Julian Tovey, Joe

John Molloy, Trinity Moses

Eithne makes a Dublin comeback

Andrew Larkin, 14th October

Based on Irish mythology, Opera Theatre Company deiver a compelling concert performance of an exceedingly rare Irish opera Eithne

****1

An Irish pub setting for Acis and Galatea in Dublin

Pia Maltri, 5th April

Ovid’s Metamorphosis (on which the episode of Acis and Galatea is based) set in an Irish pub? Cowboys in place of shepherds and a bartender instead of a nymph?

****1

Don Giovanni in a new adaptation by Roddy Doyle

Pia Maltri, 29th September

Roddy Doyle's new translation is ingenious more often than incongruous; John Molloy's Leporello steals the show in the Opera Theatre's Don Giovanni.

***11

Frauenliebe und -sterben: Kratzer’s triple bill at Staatsoper Hamburg

Mengguang Huang, 15th April

Director Tobias Kratzer engineers a haunting pasticcio of Schumann, Bartók and Zemlinsky, tracing the domestic sphere’s shift from romantic surrender to the blood-soaked secrets of a century-spanning house.

****1

Diamonds and steel: Anna Pirozzi rules in La Scala’s Turandot revival

Laura Servidei, 12th April

Visually enchanting and meticulously staged, this centenary revival confirms Livermore's production as a modern classic.

****1

Regents Opera’s Salome lands a knockout punch at York Hall

Mark Pullinger, 10th April

Mark Ravenhill directs a brutal, bloody Salome for Regents Opera at the spiritual home of British boxing, York Hall.

****1

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Terry Blain

Terry Blain is a freelance arts journalist who writes regularly on classical music, dance and theatre for a variety of publications, including BBC Music Magazine, Opera, Irish Theatre Magazine, Culture Northern Ireland, and the Belfast Telegraph. He is also a Specialist Tutor at the Open University.