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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).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Producer Ernst Josef Aufricht—in need of new work to draw attention to his central Berlin Theater am Schiffbauerdamm —commissioned the play. With a scant three months until the opening, Brecht, Weill, and their friends and families retreated to the French Riviera to finish the script.
A short summary of Bertolt Bretcht's The Threepenny Opera. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of The Threepenny Opera.
The Threepenny Opera, written by German playwright Bertolt Brecht with music by Kurt Weill, is a play that provides a biting critique of capitalism and the bourgeoisie. The show, which premiered in Berlin in 1928, is a reimagining of John Gay’s 18th-century ballad opera The Beggar’s Opera.
In a brief prologue, a ballad singer entertains a bustling crowd in the London neighborhood of Soho with a moritat, or murder ballad, about the exploits of the city’s slickest, most notorious gangster Macheath, or Mackie the Knife. At the end of the song, a well-dressed man in white gloves and spats slips away from the crowd.
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.
