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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.
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).
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Kurt Weill (1900-1950): The Threepenny Opera (1928). Versione originale da concerto nella traduzione in inglese di Marc Blitzstein e la conduzione musicale di Leonard Bernstein (1952).
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Textually Threepenny Opera—like the Beggar's Opera before it—is satire and social commentary; but for Weill, coming from a musical perspective, it was something else as well: "It gives us the opportunity to make opera the subject matter for an evening in the theater", part of what Weill saw as a lifelong process to "reform" opera ...
23 feb 2020 · Content. ♪ Synopsis. ♪ Commentary. ♪ Act I (Peachums beggar shop, Polly’s and Mackie’s Wedding) ♪ Act II (Farewell scene, Mackies arrest) ♪ Act III (Jenny’s betrayal, Finale) Highlights. ♪ Der Haifisch hat Zähne (Mack the knife) ♪ Cannon song. ♪ The moon over Soho. ♪ Barbara Song. ♪ Jenny’s Pirate Ballad.
- 1928, Berlin
- Bertold Brecht, based on the Beggar Opera by John Gay and the collaboration of Elisabeth Hauptmann and texts by Karl Klammer
- Jonathan Peachum, owner of the company Beggar's Friend - Celia Peachum, his wife - Polly Peachum, her daughter - Macheath. named Mackie Messer, ass...
- CBS, with Lotte Lenya, Erich Schellow, Johanna von Koczian and Willy Trenk conducted by Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg and the Orchestra Sender Freies...
By Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill in collaboration with Elisabeth Hauptmann. Duration. Full Evening, 65 minutes music. First Performance. 31 August 1928, Berlin, Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Erich Engel, dir., Theo Mackeben, cond. For information about licensing this work for use, see our online guide.
16 nov 2009 · By 1959, Weill’s opening song from The Threepenny Opera, “The Ballad of Mackie Messer” would be one of the biggest pop hits of all time for Bobby Darin in a jazzy variation inspired by...
