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The Threepenny Opera

1995 · 2h 43m · Released

Music

The Threepenny Opera proclaims itself "an opera for beggars," and it was in fact an attempt both to satirize traditional opera and operetta and to create a new kind of musical theater based on the theories of two young German artists, composer Kurt Weill and poet-playwright Bert Brecht. The show opens with a mock-Baroque overture, a nod to Threepenny's source, The Beggar's Opera, a brilliantly successful parody of Handel's operas written by John Gay in 1728. In a brief prologue following the overture, a shabby figure comes onstage with a barrel organ and launches into a song chronicling the crimes of the notorious bandit and womanizer Macheath, "Mack the Knife." The setting is a fair in Soho (London), just before Queen Victoria's coronation. In this production, Weill champion HK Gruber led the Ensemble Modern in a performance of Weill's complete original score, the first time it had been heard in Germany in many years. This production was broadcast on German television (3sat).

Director

Hans Hollmann

Cast

Friedrich Karl Praetorius

Friedrich Karl Praetorius

Macheath, genannt Mackie Messer

Jürgen Holtz

Jürgen Holtz

Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum

I

Ingeborg Engelmann

Celia Peachum, seine Frau

K

Katherina Lange

Polly Peachum, seine Tochter

A

Axel Böhmert

Brown, Polizeichef von London

Dorothee Hartinger

Dorothee Hartinger

Lucy, seine Tochter

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