John Easterlin

Un jeune couple désespéré d'avoir un enfant commence un traitement dans un établissement isolé d'un médecin renommé.

- Recorded live at Los Angeles Opera, 1 & 4 March 2007. Welcome to Mahagonny, where sin is "in" and love is always on sale. This Old West boomtown rises from the desert to become a razzle-dazzle mecca for lust, liberty, and the pursuit of pleasure. Cash is king, poverty is punishable by death, and anything worth doing is worth overdoing. Director John Doyle melds his Tony Award winning talent with the lyrics of influential playwright Bertolt Brecht and an incomparable score by Kurt Weill. The brilliant cast is led by superstars Audra McDonald, as the tart-with-a-heart `Jenny' and Patti LuPone, who portrays the town's feisty madam. Audra McDonald · Patti LuPone · Anthony Dean Griffey Robert Wörle · John Easterlin · Mel Ulrich Directed for Stage by John Doyle Chorus and Orchestra of the Los Angeles Opera James Conlon, conductor

A hard-hitting new production of Kurt Weill’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny by the Catalan collective La Fura dels Baus at the Teatro Real de Madrid. Composed in the 1930s by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, this is a mordant satire on capitalism and the inexorable industrialisation of a society in which the ultimate crime is not having money. In twenty scenes the authors tell the story of a city lost in the middle of a desert and run by three thugs; in Mahagonny food, sex, gambling and violence rule supreme.

Il n’est pas étonnant que le public du Met soit devenu fou devant la torride Salomé de Karita Mattila. Incontestablement l’une des plus grandes Salomé de notre époque, Mattila incarne parfaitement l’héroïne d’Oscar Wilde pétulante, obstinéeeet lubrique. Grâce à la musique révolutionnaire de Strauss qui magnifie l’atmosphère dégénérée et crée une tension érotique, cet opéra est aussi choquant aujourd’hui qu’il l’était lors de sa création en 1905.