Berlin 2013: Sommergaste (Summerfolk) AND Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (Rise and Fall of Mahagonny)
SUMMERFOLK (Sommergaste) by Maxim Gorky presented at the Schaubhne am lehniner Platz, Berlin. THE RISE AND FALL OF MAHAGONNY (Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny) – an Opera with orchestra in two Acts by Kurt Weill. Text by Bertolt Brecht, at the Komische Opera, Berlin. This is a very late blog. Dear Diary. I travelled to Berlin for the very first time, over a year ago, on my way to a Christmas In Sweden – a farm near Gothenburg – it snowed, yay! Whilst in Berlin, beside the art immersion, not only of the Ishtar Gate variety – staggering –…