The metaphor is the message in this piece. The opera Kurt Weill wrote 75 years ago with Berthold Brecht "The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny" imagined a city of sin decades before Las Vegas became the capital of American decadence. The music from the opera is a wonderful flourish at the beginning and at the end of this piece but I tiredof hearing it throughout. The story would work best at a much shorter length; less of a documentary and more of a travelogue.
Review of Weill and Vegas
Mary McGrath
Posted on March 29, 2004 at 09:02 AM
The metaphor is the message in this piece. The opera Kurt Weill wrote 75 years ago with Berthold Brecht "The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny" imagined a city of sin decades before Las Vegas became the capital of American decadence. The music from the opera is a wonderful flourish at the beginning and at the end of this piece but I tiredof hearing it throughout. The story would work best at a much shorter length; less of a documentary and more of a travelogue.