When Cabaret Confronts Collapse
Irina Brook’s Brecht–Weill triptych at La Scala confronts our broken world through recycled glamour and bitter song The glamour is seductive. The rhythm infectious. But the mirror is unforgiving. In Irina Brook’s uncompromising triptych at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, currently playing through 30 May, the world of Brecht and Weill becomes a looking glass for our own, […]
Trittico / Weill Triptych
From the outset, the key condition for me was to create a single show, not three separate operas to be performed on the same evening. What interested me was to explore the connection between The Seven Deadly Sins, Mahagonny, and Happy End — how they mirror and echo one another. Together, they form a coherent […]