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Lucy Brown, Tiger Brown's daughter; claims to be married to Mack: soprano Kate Kühl: Jenny ("Spelunken-Jenny"/"Low-Dive Jenny"/"Ginny Jenny"), a prostitute once romantically involved with Macheath; is bribed to turn Mack over to the police: mezzo-soprano Lotte Lenya: Filch, a misfit young man who approaches the Peachums in hopes of beggar ...
Lotte Lenya (born Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer; 18 October 1898 – 27 November 1981) was an Austrian-American singer, diseuse, [1] and actress, long based in the United States. [2] In the German-speaking and classical music world, she is best remembered for her performances of the songs of her first husband, Kurt Weill .
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.
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).
AGC Television, the television production and distribution division of Stuart Ford’s AGC Studios, has added YA fantasy adventure trilogy “Hook’s Daughter: The Pirate Princess Chronicles ...
Many notable artists have covered this song independently of the stage show: Lotte Lenya (who originated the role of Jenny), Nina Simone in a highly dramatic live performance, Ute Lemper, Hildegard Knef, The Dresden Dolls, Judy Collins, Marc Almond, Marianne Faithfull, Steeleye Span, and Bea Arthur.
Rachel Sennott and Bowen Yang will announce the nominations for the 97th Academy Awards. The two actors will come together on Thursday for a live presentation from the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn ...
Kurt Weill in 1932. Kurt Julian Weill (March 2, 1900 – April 3, 1950) was a German-born American composer [a] [2] active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States. [3]