After the great success of Lonely House, Katharine Mehrling returns to the Komische Oper Berlin with a staged evening of songs by Kurt Weill. While Lonely House was devoted entirely to Weill’s exile in Paris and New York, the focus tonight is on the songs from Weill’s Berlin period, arranged for orchestra by Kai Tietje and staged by Barrie Kosky.

... und mit morgen könnt ihr mich!

Schiller Theater

In the heart of the desert, three fugitive criminals establish the city of Mahagonny. This ‘paradise city’ has its own rules for living life, fueled by the wealth of men passing through from the Gold Coast. Eating, loving, boxing, and drinking are the order of the day. However, this idyllic utopia soon begins to falter, as natural disasters, excesses, violence, and corruption push the city to its breaking point.

Rise and Fall of the City of Maha­gonny

Director Barrie Kosky plunges us into a nightmarish, wildly exaggerated satire, with marching noses, rolling rickshaw tables, and caricatured protagonists in garish costumes that straddle folklore and historicism, all unfolding within a cold, bleak setting that feels claustrophobic despite its size. This surrealist story of the insecure and paranoid upstart Platon Kuzmich Kovalyov is transformed into a absurd, kaleidoscopic revue of the vanities, an unsettling collision of Wozzeck and Alice in Wonderland with its own ‘irrational’ logic.

Klaus Grünberg

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Nov 8 - Dec 20, 2025

... und mit morgen könnt ihr mich! · Komische Oper Berlin

Dec 6, 2025 - Jan 4, 2026

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny · Komische Oper Berlin

Mar 15 - Apr 6, 2026

The Nose · Komische Oper Berlin

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Nov 8 - Dec 20, 2025

... und mit morgen könnt ihr mich! · Komische Oper Berlin

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Events

Upcoming events

Nov 8 - Dec 20, 2025

... und mit morgen könnt ihr mich! · Komische Oper Berlin

Dec 6, 2025 - Jan 4, 2026

Rise and Fall of the City of Maha­gonny · Komische Oper Berlin

Mar 15 - Apr 6, 2026

The Nose · Komische Oper Berlin

Past events

Nov 8 - Dec 20, 2025

... und mit morgen könnt ihr mich! · Komische Oper Berlin

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Klaus Grünberg

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny · Komische Oper Berlin

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