Win Tickets to the ‘Royal Opera House’ THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY MAHAGONNY at The Tivoli in St. Louis

Experience the thrill of watching opera from the Royal Opera House in the comfort of the Tivoli Theater (6350 Delmar Boulevard, in The Loop, St. Louis, MO, 63130) thanks to the ‘Royal Opera House at The Tivoli Theater’ series

We Are Movie Geeks has teamed up with the Tivoli Theater for a special giveaway! We have five pairs of tickets (a $30 value) for the first installment of this year’s ‘Royal Opera House at The Tivoli Theater’ which will be THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY MAHAGONNY The date is next Sunday May 3rd and the show begins at 11am.

All you have to do is leave a comment below and tell us why you want free tickets – it’s so easy! We’ll contact the winners in a few days. Good luck!

These operas are shown on the Tivoli’s big screen in their entirety, giving you the opportunity to enjoy the Royal Opera House and these critically acclaimed performances. The Royal Opera House is a major performing arts venue in Covent Garden, central London.

Stay tuned for one more ‘Royal Opera House at The Tivoli Theater’ event in June. We Are Movie Geeks will have ticket giveaways for this:

June 28th – La Boheme

The Tivoli’s site can be found HERE

http://www.landmarktheatres.com/st-louis/tivoli-theatre

The three-year genesis of THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY MAHAGONNY spanned the entire partnership between Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill – one of the most fruitful and shortest musical collaborations of the 20th century. The great success of their first work together, the Mahagonny Songspiel (1927), encouraged the two to adapt it into a full-length opera. But progress stalled as the two men discovered their theories were developing in deeply divergent directions: Brecht eager to pursue the disjointed effect of his theories of epic theatre, Weill looking for ways to unify very different styles of music. Concerns from first the publishers and then producers over the work’s ‘depravity’ further increased the disruption. The riot at the opera’s premiere on 9 March 1930 was the beginning of the end of Weill’s career in Germany.

The troubled development of THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY MAHAGONNYonly adds to the work’s extraordinary power as one of the most unsettling and provocative of all operas. This is Weill at his most brilliant and inventive, incorporating popular song in the ‘Alabama Song’ and neoclassicism in the terrifying ‘Hurricane fugue’. The Royal Opera’s Associate Director of Opera John Fulljames directs The Royal Opera’s first production of the work in collaboration with designer Es Devlin (Don Giovanni, Les Troyens). They focus on Brecht and Weill’s stinging critique of consumerism while finding new relevance in our insatiable depletion of the earth’s resources.