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The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (German: Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny) is a political-satirical opera composed by Kurt Weill to a German libretto by Bertolt Brecht. It was first performed on 9 March 1930 at the Neues Theater in Leipzig.

Genre
literary fiction
Themes
theatre
Setting
1920sgermany
Audience
adult
Form
plays

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