New York City Opera will present Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's thrilling double bill, The Seven Deadly Sins & Mahagonny Songspiel, for the first time ever told as one story, a tragic fable for today.
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Florentine Opera christened the newly renovated Uihlein Hall Friday evening by scattering litter across the stage.
But wait a minute I don t want you to think the Florentines don t clean up after themselves, or that they won t be invited back to the Marcus Performing Arts Center s flagship space (with spiffy new center aisles, but more on that later).
In a COVID-19 pandemic year of local arts groups navigating safety protocols to perform unusual works in unusual ways, the Florentine s Little Mahagonny might be the unusualest.
Composed by Kurt Weill with words by Bertolt Brecht and Elisabeth Hauptmann, Little Mahagonny (1927) is a six-song cantata about people who light out for a city of gold, only to discover they re miserable there, too. Weill and Brecht later expanded it into the opera The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. Both versions include The Alabama Song, covered by a zillion people, including The Doors, David Bowie and Bette Midler.
Robert Del Naja and
Grant Marshall, who co-founded the U.K. electronica outfit. The deal, which does not include the group’s third member, Adrian “Tricky” Thaws, encompasses their first five albums.
“Massive Attack are authentic trailblazers who are revered by their peers and music fans alike,” said
Robin Godfrey-Cass, managing director of Round Hill’s London office, in a statement. “The band’s body of work, which Robert and Grant have been key contributors to over the last three decades is astonishing and we are proud that they have chosen us to oversee their legacy.”
Massive Attack s first three albums