from English
National Opera,
Declan Donnellan 's new production of Kurt Weill and Berthold
Brecht's opera. This is the company's first ever staging of this 20th-century masterpiece.
The motto of the paradise city of Mahagonny is
"Do it!", and there is only one capital offence - poverty.
Crooks:
English National Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Sian Edwards
Act
8.25 Interval Talk
Christopher Wintle talks to Kim Kowalke of the Kurt
Weill Foundation , about tonight's opera.
8.40 Act 2
9.25 Glimpses of Bertort Brecht
Barbara Brecht-Schall remembers her father, and Alec McCowen reads some of Brecht's poetry in a feature compiled by Noel Witts.
Rpt
9.40 Act 3