“Auf nach Mahagonny" in Mannheim!

By Ilana Walder-Biesanz, 31 December 2017

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“Cornelia Zink... combined jazzy belting with gorgeous floated top notes as Jenny,”

Reviewed at Nationaltheater: Opernhaus, Mannheim on 30 December 2017

Weill, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

Nationaltheater Mannheim

Benjamin Reiners, Conductor

Markus Dietz, Director

Ines Nadler, Set Designer

Henrike Bromber, Costume Designer

Will Hartmann, Jimmy Mahoney

Cornelia Zink, Jenny Smith

Jasmin Etezadzadeh, Leokadia Begbick

Raphael Wittmer, Fatty

Thomas Jesatko, Trinity Moses

Uwe Eikötter, Jacky O'Brien

Christopher Diffey, Tobby Higgins

Thomas Berau, Billy

Philipp Alexander Mehr, Joe

Lillian Stillwell, Choreography

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Ilana Walder-Biesanz

Ilana Walder-Biesanz is a product manager for Yahoo, a theatre and opera critic, and a classically trained mezzo-soprano. She explored theater and opera stagings as a Gates Scholar at Cambridge and as a Fulbright Scholar in Germany. She currently writes for Bachtrack, San Francisco Classical Voice, and Stark Insider. Twitter: @ilana_wb.