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The Threepenny Opera [a] (Die Dreigroschenoper [diː dʁaɪˈɡʁɔʃn̩ˌʔoːpɐ]) is a 1928 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, [1] and four ballads by François Villon, with music by Kurt Weill. Although there is ...
The Threepenny Opera (German: Die 3 Groschen-Oper) is a 1931 German musical film directed by G. W. Pabst.Produced by Seymour Nebenzal's Nero-Film for Tonbild-Syndikat AG (), Berlin and Warner Bros. Pictures GmbH, Berlin, the film is loosely based on the 1928 musical theatre success of the same name by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill.
Pirate Jenny" (German: "Seeräuber-Jenny") is a well-known song from The Threepenny Opera by Kurt Weill, with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht. The English lyrics are by Marc Blitzstein. It is one of the best known songs in the opera, after "Mack the Knife".
He has also directed and designed many classical productions with major theaters around the world including, The Threepenny Opera, The Golem [18] and plays by Václav Havel, Botho Strauss, and Suzan-Lori Parks for The New York Shakespeare Festival, Die Fledermaus at the Paris Opera, Don Giovanni at the Opera de Lille, Philip Glass's Fall of the ...
Textually Threepenny Opera—like the Beggar's Opera before it—is satire and social commentary; [22] 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", [23] part of what Weill saw as a lifelong process to "reform" opera ...
Threepenny Novel (German: Dreigroschenroman) is a 1934 German novel by the dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht, first published in Amsterdam by Allert de Lange [] in 1934. It is similar in structure to his more famous The Threepenny Opera and features several of the same characters such as Macheath, together with a general anti-capitalist focus and a didactic technique that is often associated ...
Regina (1949) — opera — composer and orchestrator, librettist; Let's Make an Opera (1950) — special performance — director; King Lear (1950) — play revival — incidental music composer; The Threepenny Opera (1954) — operetta revival — editor of Bertolt Brecht's book and lyrics into English; Reuben, Reuben (1955) — opera
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