The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:opera
gptkbp:adaptation 1998 Salzburg Festival production (filmed)
gptkbp:basedOn Mahagonny-Songspiel
gptkbp:character gptkb:Jenny_Smith
gptkb:Fatty_the_Bookkeeper
gptkb:Jimmy_Mahoney
gptkb:Leokadja_Begbick
gptkb:Trinity_Moses
gptkbp:composer gptkb:Kurt_Weill
gptkbp:controversy banned by Nazis
gptkbp:genre gptkb:opera
jazz influences
cabaret influences
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
gptkbp:influenced musical theatre
rock music (Alabama Song covered by The Doors)
gptkbp:influencedBy Weimar Republic era
gptkbp:language gptkb:German
gptkbp:librettist gptkb:Bertolt_Brecht
gptkbp:notableAria gptkb:Alabama_Song
gptkbp:notableConductor gptkb:John_Mauceri
gptkb:Kurt_Masur
gptkb:James_Levine
gptkbp:notablePerformer gptkb:Lotte_Lenya
gptkb:Teresa_Stratas
gptkb:Bryn_Terfel
gptkbp:notableProduction 1930 Leipzig premiere
1979 Metropolitan Opera production
gptkbp:notableRecording Lotte Lenya recording
gptkbp:notableSong Benares Song
Moon of Alabama
Oh Show Us the Way to the Next Whisky Bar
gptkbp:premiereDate 1930-03-09
gptkbp:premiereLocation gptkb:Leipzig,_Germany
gptkbp:publisher gptkb:Universal_Edition
gptkbp:revival post-World War II European productions
gptkbp:setting fictional city of Mahagonny
gptkbp:structure three acts
gptkbp:subject morality
pleasure
decadence
money
punishment
lawlessness
gptkbp:theme social criticism
satire of capitalism
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Whiskey_Bar
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7