Ascesa e caduta
della città di Mahagonny

Music by
KURT WEILL
Edition Universal Wien, represented for Italy by Casa Ricordi srl

Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny

Opera in three parts from the lyrics by Bertolt Brecht

Dates

Teatro Regio di Parma

Tuesday, April 26 2022, 8.00 pm Opera A
Thursday, April 28 2022, 8.00 pm Opera B
Saturday, April 30 2022, 8.00 pm Opera C

Running time 2h50, including one intermission

Atto 1 – 1h and 5 minutes
Intermission – 20 minutes
Atti 2 e 3 – 1h and 25 minutes

Cast

Leokadja Begbick	ALISA KOLOSOVA
Fatty, der “Prokurist”	CHRIS MERRITT (26) MATHIAS KOZOROWSKI (28, 30)
Dreieinigkeitsmoses	ZOLTAN NAGY
Jenny Hill	NADJA MCHANTAF
Jim Mahoney	TOBIAS HÄCHLER
Jack O’Brien	MATTHIAS FREY (26, 28) CHRISTOPHER LEMMINGS (30)
Bill, detto Sparbüchsenbill	SIMON SCHNORR
Joe, detto Alaskawolfjoe	JERZY BUTRYN
Tobby Higgins	MATTHIAS FREY (26, 28) CHRISTOPHER LEMMINGS (30)
Il narratore	FILIPPO LANZI
Sei ragazze di Mahagonny	ROXANA HERRERA, ELIZABETH HERTZBERG YULIIA TKACHENKO, CECILIA BERNINI KAMELIA KADER, MARIANGELA MARINI

Conductor
CHRISTOPHER FRANKLIN

Director
HENNING BROCKHAUS

Set design
MARGHERITA PALLI

Lighting design
PASQUALE MARI

Video design
MARIO SPINACI

Costume design
GIANCARLO COLIS

Choreography
VALENTINA ESCOBAR

ORCHESTRA DELL’EMILIA-ROMAGNA “ARTURO TOSCANINI”

CORO DEL TEATRO REGIO DI PARMA

Chorus master
MARTINO FAGGIANI

New production by Teatro Regio di Parma on the occasion of Parma Capitale Italiana della Cultura 2021
Coproduction with Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia

Italian surtitles

Assistente alla direzione d’orchestra Massimo Fiocchi Malaspina
Assistente alle scene Marco Cristini
Assistente ai costumi Antonella Castelli
Assistente alle luci Gianni Bertoli
Direttore di scena Ermelinda Suella
Vocal coach, maestro di sala e pianista in scena Gianluca Ascheri
Maestri di sala e palcoscenico Claudio Cirelli, Claudia Zucconi
Pianista in orchestra Claudia Pulsoni
Maestro alle luci Melissa Mastrolorenzi
Maestri ai sopratitoli Enrica Apparuti, Marco Turri; Sopratitoli a cura di Enrica Apparuti
Scene, costumi e attrezzeria Teatro Regio di Parma; Calzature CTC (Milano)
Parrucche Audello Teatro (Milano); Trucco e parrucco Accademia Backstage
Responsabile di produzione Ilaria Pucci; Responsabile dei servizi tecnici Andrea Borelli
Direttore di palcoscenico Giacomo Benamati
Scenografo realizzatore e consulente agli allestimenti Franco Venturi
Responsabile macchinisti Giuseppe Caradente; Responsabile elettricisti Giorgio Valerio
Responsabile attrezzeria Monica Bocchi
Consulente per la sartoria Lorena Marin
Personale tecnico, amministrativo e di palcoscenico del Teatro Regio di Parma

Opera Vision

Sabato 30 aprile 2022, ore 20.00

Guarda Ascesa e caduta della città di Mahagonny su Operavision.eu:

https://operavision.eu/performance/rise-and-fall-city-mahagonny

La piattaforma digitale di Opera Europa, grazie al supporto di Creative Europe dell’Unione Europea, offrirà gratuitamente per il triennio 2022-2024 un ricco cartellone di opere in live streaming e on demand da oltre 30 teatri di 16 paesi, con sottotitoli in diverse lingue e contenuti extra di approfondimento.

Il Teatro Regio di Parma aderisce al progetto con un’opera all’anno, iniziando con Ascesa e caduta della città di Mahagonny che dal 30 aprile resterà disponibile per tre mesi.

The Utopia of the Petit Bourgeois
by Henning Brockhaus, director

Mahagonny is a metropolis of pleasure and entertainment. A paradise of whiskey, endless binging and lustful brothels; a place where money can buy everything but happiness, becoming useless in the end. The protagonist Jimmy Mahoney imposes the law of “everything is allowed” with the impetus of a capitalistic revolutionary.
Everyone pursues fun and enjoyment exclusively by spending money, rendering their desire limited and twisted. Eventually, Jimmy Mahoney becomes the victim of his own intentions: he cumulates debt to help a friend of his as the loan he needs is denied to him. Jimmy, now penniless, is sentenced to death. In Mahagonny, the lack of money is forbidden. Eventually, Mahagonny crumbles amid citizens’ protests condemning the atrocities of capitalism through violent rioting. Even though the dimension of workers is missing in Mahagonny, we have created a background scenography representing a world made of poor and exploited people. They exist as a mere shadow, though their presence is distressing. We were also inspired by Edward Hopper’s American painting to realize both the space and the costumes. America created the dream of happiness with capitalism, but wealth is based on crime. In Mahagonny, entrepreneurs are criminals, becoming then their own judges. They founded a city of enjoyment which promised to realize all their dreams: The Utopia of the Petit Bourgeois.

Henning Brockhaus