Mahagonny

I must say, that for my first opera, Mahagonny was an excellent start. From the beginning of the Opera, when Trinity Moses and Fatty the bookkeeper come onto the stage, i was captivated. They could not have cast a better actor for Trinity Moses, or any of the other characters really. The costuming, set design and character makeup is so colorful and ornate that it adds to the overall quality of the play.

In the post-apocalyptic world that McCarthy has brought to life in The Road, a son and father struggle for the strength, courage and hope to continue searching for the lost world that is too far gone to remember and fight to survive the horrors that engulf them. On their journey through the gray and barren lands, every moment is a struggle for survival and every step becomes their only existence in a dead world. Yet there is hope. It is found in the fire, the warmth, the pistol and the little boy. At one point in the novel the little boy tells his father that he is the one who must worry about their future and in this brief moment, hope arises, only to be suffocated by the gray, endless ash.