Brecht And Weill’s Opera Has Regained Its Bite In The Huge Economic Imbalances Of The 21st Century

“Its story is so contemporary, though, that it could almost have been written yesterday. It charts the creation, supposedly in America, of a city of pleasure with no history and no moral compass – and its destruction in a morass of consumerist malaise and addiction, with inhabitants put to death for the crime of having no money.”