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Weimar Season

on BBC Radio 3

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)

Contributors

Music By:
Kurt Weill
Unknown:
Michael Feingold
Soprano:
Elise Ross
Mezzo-Soprano:
Linda Hirst
Tenor:
Alexander Oliver
Leader:
Nona Liddell
Conducted By:
Simon Rattle

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