Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

5 pieces since 2010 — at 2 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.

5 pieces
2 companies
17 years

Company Metropolitan Opera

The last days of disco

The Met’s 1979 telecast of Mahagonny exposed one of the lesser-known factors contributing to the demise of disco:  the global supply of eye shadow, rouge and lip gloss was exhausted for the next decade by a cast featuring Klara Barlow, Louise Wohlafka, Nedda Casei, Gwynn Cornell, Joann Grillo and Isola Jones—and stilettos, garter belts and […]

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Company Teatro Real

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