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ICT’s first production in 1985 was of Robin Swados’ play The Quiet End, one of the earliest dramas of the AIDs crisis in America.It set a tone for the ICT repertory which, in addition to plays of familial relationships and musical entertainments—including such modern classics as The Threepenny Opera and Master Class—regularly experiments with new works and with edgy contemporary pieces ...
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.
Vocalists Sharon Chohi Kim, left, and Kathryn Shuman perform during a dress rehearsal for Pauline Oliveros' indoor-outdoor event "Earth Ears: A Sonic Ritual," performed by the Long Beach Opera at ...
The company, originally known as Long Beach Grand Opera, was a venture sponsored by the Long Beach Symphony Association to mark the inaugural season of the city’s Terrace Theater. Michael Milenski , formerly of the San Francisco Opera and San Jose Opera, was tapped to mount the first production in March, 1979, Verdi’s La Traviata starring ...
Long Beach Opera begins its 2023 season with the world premiere of Kate Soper's "Romance of the Rose," which brings a 13th century poem into the multimedia, multigenre present.
A Moritat is a medieval version of the murder ballad performed by strolling minstrels.In The Threepenny Opera, the Moritat singer with his street organ introduces and closes the drama with the tale of the deadly Mackie Messer, or Mack the Knife, a character based on the dashing highwayman Macheath in John Gay's The Beggar's Opera (who was in turn based on the historical thief Jack Sheppard).
The song depicts Low-Dive Jenny (German: Spelunken-Jenny), a character borrowed from John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, and he in turn based that character on the historical person of Jenny Diver (1700–1741). [1] Low-Dive Jenny is a lowly maid at a "crummy old hotel", imagining avenging herself for the contempt she endures from the townspeople.
Robert Wilson (born October 4, 1941) is an American experimental theater stage director and playwright who has been described by The New York Times as "[America]'s – or even the world's – foremost vanguard 'theater artist. ' " [1] He has also worked as a choreographer, performer, painter, sculptor, video artist, and sound and lighting designer.