Royal Opera’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny review: far too well behaved

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

Royal Opera, in rep until 4 April

The Rake’s Progress

Royal Academy of Music

Brecht/Weill’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny was premièred in 1930, Auden/Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress in 1951. Twenty-one years separate them, but it seems, as one looks back, enormously more than that. Think of 1994 and now, no time at all, and not only for an ageing opera reviewer.

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TaggedAnne Sofie von Otter, Auden, Bertolt Brecht, Christine Rice, Jeremy Sams, Kurt Weill, Opera, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Royal Academy of Music, Royal Opera, Stravinsky, The Rake’s Progress

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Royal Opera's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny review: far too well behaved

The Royal Academy’s Rake’s Progress wins hands down in the war against idle pleasures

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