MAHAGONNY! Athens 1977/78

A friend of mine who calls me crazy 'cause of the amount of recordings i have got in a 4x4 room asked me to upload something crazy, something that i consider a true rarity and that i think that nobody else has. Well, after a lot of thinking i ended up uploading this trully unique performance of this amazing Kurt Weil's opera.

RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY OF MAHAGONNY
( BRECHT - WEILL )

The cast is STELLAR! Many great greek singers like Papantoniou, Morfoniou, Kavrakos etc!
The performance is not so stellar though...The language of the performance is a mix of greek and english! But it 's worth it as a piece of the greek operatic history.

AUFSTIEG UND FALL DER STADT MAHAGONNY
RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY OF MAHAGONNY
GRANDEUR ET DECADENCE DE LA VILLE DE MAHAGONNY
( BRECHT - WEILL )

First presentation in Greece
Season 1977/78

Mus. Direction: Hans Werner Pindgen

Begbick - Kiki Morfoniou
Fatty - Mihalis Heliotis
Moses - Andreas Kouloumbis
Jenny Hill - Vasso Papantoniou
Jim Mahoney - Zahos Terzakis
Jakob Schmidt - Dimitris Stefanou
Bill - Themis Sermie
Joe - Dimitris Kavrakos (a very young Kavrakos)
Tobby Higgins - Nikos Doufexiadis
Speaker - Yorgos Terzakis

Chorus master: Vyron Fidetzis

http://rapidshare.com/files/6224624/MahagonnyAthens1977.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/6233740/MahagonnyCD2.rar

ps. The truth is that i m not the only owner of this recording...I gave it to Zahos Terzakis last year when he was singing Butterfly in Athens...