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A heaven of hell, a hell of heaven: Brecht and Weill's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

By Charlotte Valori, 11 March 2015
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“There is a dark grain in the Las Vegas glitz of this pleasure city”
Reviewed at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London on 10 March 2015
Programme
Weill, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Performers
The Royal Opera
Mark Wigglesworth, Conductor
John Fulljames, Director
Es Devlin, Set Designer
Christina Cunningham, Costume Designer
Anne Sofie von Otter, Leokadia Begbick
Peter Hoare, Fatty
Sir Willard White, Trinity Moses
Christine Rice, Jenny Smith
Kurt Streit, Jimmy Mahoney
Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts, Jacky O'Brien
Darren Jeffery, Billy
Hubert Francis, Tobby Higgins
Neal Davies, Joe
Royal Opera Chorus
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
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Charlotte Valori
Charlotte Valori
Charlotte Valori read Classics at Christ Church, Oxford. As a classicist, her main interest is Greek tragedy and its reception by later cultures, which has led to a continuing passion for theatre and opera. Charlotte reviews for several online magazines, and won the Bachtrack Opera Award 2015 for Best Written English Review. Follow her on Twitter @operissima.