1 to 3.30 PM. Naked Capitalism in a fictionalized Wild West.
http://www.wrti.org/opera.html
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/shows/mahagonny/index.html
And it had one hell of an opening night -
The opera's world premiere, on March 9, 1930 at Leipzig's Neues Theater, was disrupted by organized bands of rabble-rousers. Actor/singer Lotte Lenya, who played Jenny in the 1931 Berlin production and was the composer's wife, was in the audience on opening night and recounted the events, which were included in the liner notes of the 1956 Columbia recording of the opera:
"I have been told that the square around the opera house was filled with Nazi Brown Shirts, carrying placards protesting the Mahagonny performance.... The performance [was] well under way, before I was startled out of my absorption by the electric tension around us, something strange and ugly. As the opera swept toward its close, the demonstrations started, whistles and boos; by the time the last scene was reached, fist fights had broken out in the aisles, the theatre was a screaming mass of people; soon the riot had spread to the stage, panicky spectators were trying to claw their way out, and only the arrival of a large police force, finally, cleared the theatre."
http://www.wrti.org/opera.html
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/shows/mahagonny/index.html
And it had one hell of an opening night -
The opera's world premiere, on March 9, 1930 at Leipzig's Neues Theater, was disrupted by organized bands of rabble-rousers. Actor/singer Lotte Lenya, who played Jenny in the 1931 Berlin production and was the composer's wife, was in the audience on opening night and recounted the events, which were included in the liner notes of the 1956 Columbia recording of the opera:
"I have been told that the square around the opera house was filled with Nazi Brown Shirts, carrying placards protesting the Mahagonny performance.... The performance [was] well under way, before I was startled out of my absorption by the electric tension around us, something strange and ugly. As the opera swept toward its close, the demonstrations started, whistles and boos; by the time the last scene was reached, fist fights had broken out in the aisles, the theatre was a screaming mass of people; soon the riot had spread to the stage, panicky spectators were trying to claw their way out, and only the arrival of a large police force, finally, cleared the theatre."
