Operatic City Of Sin Comes To Covent Garden — londonist.com

The Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny. Photo by Clive Barda. The Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny. Photo by Clive Barda.Christine Rice as Jenny. Photo by Clive Barda.Kurt Streit as Jimmy, Neal Davies as Alaska Wolf Joe, Willard W White as Trinity Moses. Photo by Clive Barda. It’s not often that opera causes a riot. But when The Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny was first staged in 1930, Nazis in the audience decried its decadent message and violence soon followed outside. Like Bill Haley And The Comet’s Rock Around The Clock a generation later, Mahagonny’s imaginary world of imagined freedom presented a marked contrast to the austere mood of the times and the public reaction was explosive.

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