Sfida alle convenzioni “gastronomiche” del teatro d’opera: “Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny” di Kurt Weill e Bertolt Brecht

Anna Ficarella

doi:10.6092/issn.2039-9715/6584

Sfida alle convenzioni “gastronomiche” del teatro d’opera: “Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny” di Kurt Weill e Bertolt Brecht

Authors

Anna Ficarella

Anna Ficarella, after completing her academic and musical studies in Bari, earned a PhD in Historical musicology at the Musikwissenschaftliches Institut of Cologne University, with a thesis entitled Die Kategorie der Spätstils in der Klaviermusik des XIX. und XX. Jahrhunderts. Studien zur ‘Klavierübung’ von Ferruccio Busoni” (Gustav Bosse Verlag, Kassel 1999). She then worked at the Bärenreiter music-publishing house in Kassel, and subsequently obtained a three-year research grant at Bari University for a project on Mahler’s work as a performer and orchestra conductor, in collaboration with the Internationale Gustav Mahler Gesellschaft of Vienna. A research topic of particular interest to her is the relationship between composition, aesthetics and performance practice between the 19^th and 20^th centuries in the Austrian-German cultural area.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2039-9715/6584

Keywords:

Epic musical theatre, Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht, Estrangement, Intermediality

Abstract

An unconventional work like Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny, written by Weill and Brecht between 1927 and 1930, provides an opportunity to address, through a multi-disciplinary didactic approach, a crucial moment in the evolution of opera theatre in the German cultural area in the years immediately following WWI. In the Germany of those years, operatic and theatrical institutions had been undermined both by the impact of the new media, above all by silent cinema, and by the disruptive social pressure of urban mass culture during the Weimar Republic. In this context, the ‘epic’ model of musical dramaturgy developed by Brecht and Weill in Mahagonny appears as an attempt to renew, or possibly reject altogether, the 19^th-century work by using its very means.

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Published

2016-12-30

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Ficarella, A. (2016). Sfida alle convenzioni “gastronomiche” del teatro d’opera: “Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny” di Kurt Weill e Bertolt Brecht. Musica Docta, 6(1), 157–171. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2039-9715/6584

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Vol. 6 (2016)

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Educational Approaches

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