by Kurt Weill, Lotte Lenya · Columbia · CD · EAN 5099707734122
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«Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny» is the recording of the opera by Kurt Weill, released by Columbia in 1988 on double CD.
Opera with a libretto by Bertolt Brecht that imagines a city founded by fortune seekers in North America, where money imposes its own justice and pleasure becomes law. This recording, sung in German, brings together Lotte Lenya as Jenny, the North German Radio Choir and the orchestra conducted by Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg.
Original mono recording. Cast: Heinz Sauerbaum (Jimmy Mahoney), Gisela Litz (Mrs. Begbick) and Horst Günter (Trinity Moses); Max Thurn conducts the choir.
For fans of 20th-century opera and the work of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht.
