Melbourne Opera: The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at Athenaeum Theatre

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As the first main stage production in Australia in over forty years, Melbourne Opera and IOpera will present a stunning reinterpretation of Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht and Elisabeth Hauptmanns The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at The Athenaeum from 1 May. Composed over 100 years ago with the first performance in Leipzig in 1930, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny is a timeless political-satirical opera that was banned in Germany in 1933 by the Nazi movement.