Schedule - Deutsche Oper Berlin
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny
Kurt Weill [1900 – 1950]
Oper in drei Akten
Musik von Kurt Weill
Text von Bertolt Brecht
Uraufführung: 9. März 1930 in Leipzig
Premiere an der Deutschen Oper Berlin am 17. Juli 2025
AUFSTIEG UND FALL DER STADT MAHAGONNY wird in Benedikt von Peters Inszenierung in den Foyers und auf der Bühne stattfinden – die Gäste können sich frei zwischen den Spielorten und Videoleinwänden bewegen. Es wird bei freier Platzwahl Sitzmöglichkeiten geben, unter anderem auf Matratzen.
2 Stunden 15 Minuten / Keine Pause
In deutscher Sprache mit deutschen und englischen Übertiteln
45 Minuten vor Vorstellungsbeginn: Einführung im Rang-Foyer rechts
empfohlen ab 15 Jahren- Premiere17202520:00JulThu€ 64,00 / reduced € 32,00
- 20202520:00JulSun€ 64,00 / reduced € 32,00
- 22202520:00JulTue€ 64,00 / reduced € 32,00
- 24202520:00JulThu€ 64,00 / reduced € 32,00
- Last Performance26202520:00JulSat€ 64,00 / reduced € 32,00
Präsentiert von radio3 vom rbb und taz.
About the work
Everything begins with the foundation of a city. Less the fruit of an ideal than the result of zero prospects in life, the city is conceived by the widowed Begbick, Fatty and Trinity Moses as a place that will make them money. Aiming to come out ahead financially for once, they plan to out-fox a system designed to suck them dry. To this end they name their city »Mahagonny, the City of Nets«. Yet the system defies their attempts to out-wit it; the nets net nothing. The people flocking to Mahagonny bring discontent rather than money – first and foremost Jimmy Mahoney, who grimly concludes: »But something’s missing«.
Underpinning Bertolt Brecht’s and Kurt Weill’s »didactic work« is a deep disillusionment. The atmosphere of the piece is summed up in the song »We lost our big old mama«. The protagonists aim to fail as a team in their radical and nihilistic project: stuffing their faces and boozing, shagging and brawling till they drop. Only to Jimmy Mahoney is it given to ponder on existential matters, grappling with the key issues of our age: How do we want to live? And: what is community?
About the production
Benedikt von Peter’s production makes RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY OF MAHAGONNY an up-close and personal experience. The action extends from the stage to the foyer of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and all points in between. The audience become part of a 3-dimensional entertainment construct that is inexorably morphing into an apocalyptic game.