-False Maria is Born
-Delirium
-The Whore of Babylon

This is a supposedly lossless rip from the Blu-Ray version of the "complete" Metropolis directed by Fritz Lang, a 1928 silent film.

In the movie, this music goes with False-Maria's scandalous dance in Yoshiwara and with Freder's delirium after seeing his father with what he believed was Maria. 

If you haven't seen the movie, I highly suggest it. It's a masterpiece of film and has been alluded to in such great movies as Pink Floyd's The Wall and Star Wars.

07 METROPOLIS - Intermezzo II

Transcription by J. S. Bach of a Concerto for 4 Violins by Antonio Vivaldi.

Featured in the soundtrack of 'Dangerous Liaisons'

Concerto in A Minor for Four Harpsichords BWV 1065  I Allegro

From the dvd "The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny" featuring Patti LuPone as Leocadia Begbick

-Overture
-Melodrama
-'So we might as well build a city here' [Widow Begbick]
-'Still we're only building Mahagonny' [Widow Begbick/Trinity Moses/Fatty the Bookkeeper]

01 How The City of Mahagonny Was Founded

The Trial of Jimmy McIntyre

This scene is, in essence, the soul of the opera. Jimmy McIntyre is brought to trial for "compelling with cash a woman to commit a carnal act", "singing an illegal joyous song", "seducing the entire town into destroying peace and contentment", "sending his best friend to a certain death", and being unable to pay for 3 bottles of whiskey and a billiard cue he used.

The man before him, who is guilty of murder, is proclaimed innocent after bribing the court, however Jimmy has no money and can't do that, so he asks his best friend who replies "You know how much I care, but cash is a different matter."
As a result, he is sentenced to a few days in jail for betting on his friend in a boxing match that resulted in his death, a year's loss of civil rights for singing illegally, four years in the chain-gang for sleeping with a prostitute, and condemned to death for being unable to pay for the whiskey and billiard cue.

After all, "In the whole human race there is no greater criminal than the man without money"

19 The courts in Mahagonny were no worse than anywhere else

A Typhoon - "How Frightful! A Disaster!" 
from Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

Vrixton Anatol Phillips

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