Mahagonny Songspiel Music by Kurt Weill
Text by BERTOLT BRECHT, sung in MICHAEL FEINGOLD 'S translation This style-study for their full-length opera (to be broadcast next Sunday) was originally staged in a boxing ring and is directed at 'a naive audience which simply wants a bit of fun in the theatre'.
(PROGRAMME NOTE, 1927)
ELISE Ross (soprano)
LINDA HIRST (mezzo-soprano) NEIL JENKINS (tenor)
ALEXANDER OLIVER (tenor) OMAR EBRAHIM (baritone) TERRY EDWARDS (baSS) LONDON SINFONIETTA leader NONA LIDDELL conducted by SIMON RATTLE (Given last April in the Queen Elizabeth Hall. London)