To round out the year musically, you are invited to join us at the Komische Oper Berlin, where we will come together to watch one of the 20th century’s most famous and operas operas in a new production by Barrie Kosky under the musical direction of Ainārs Rubiķis.
Composed around the same time as Arnold Schoenberg’s opera, which is based on the Book of Exodus, Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny was more covert about its references to the Hebrew Bible, though they remain unmistakable. An opera and anti-opera at once, Mahagonny explores the pitfalls of human existence.
