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The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper [diː dʁaɪˈɡʁɔʃn̩ˌʔoːpɐ]) is a German "play with music" by Bertolt Brecht, adapted from a translation by Elisabeth Hauptmann of John Gay's 18th-century English ballad opera, The Beggar's Opera, and four ballads by François Villon, with music by Kurt Weill. Although there is debate as to ...
The Threepenny Opera, musical drama in three acts written by Bertolt Brecht in collaboration with composer Kurt Weill, produced in German as Die Dreigroschenoper in 1928 and published the following year. The play was adapted by Elisabeth Hauptmann from John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera (1728).
Jun 10, 2020 · The Threepenny Opera by Kurt Weill (1900-1950), music and Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), lyrics. orchestra and chorus conducted by Wilhelm Bruckner-Ruggeberg. The cast includes Lotte Lenya (1898-1981), Wolfgand Neuss, Willy Trenk-Trebitsch, Trude Hesterburg and Erich Schellow.
The spring following the debut of The Threepenny Opera, Germany’s majority party, the Social Democratic Party, prohibited annual May Day worker’s demonstrations in Berlin. When the communist party defied the ban and demonstrated, more than thirty-two workers were killed.
Brecht set the opera in the criminal underworld of Victorian London; in it, he satirized the respectable bourgeoisie as no better than the gangster Macheath (Mac the Knife).
Sep 9, 2023 · THE THREEPENNY OPERADie DreigroschenoperOriginal German Soundtrack
Set in the impoverished back alleys of Victorian London, The Threepenny Opera follows underworld antihero Mackie Messer (a.k.a. Mack the Knife) as he tries to woo Polly Peachum and elude the authorities.
