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The Threepenny Opera [a] ( 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, [1] and four ballads by François Villon, with music by Kurt Weill.
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
Nov 16, 2009 · Created in partnership with the revolutionary dramatist Bertolt Brecht, that work would, in fact, prove to be the most significant and successful of Weill’s career and one of the most important...
His best-known work is The Threepenny Opera (1928), a reworking of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, written in collaboration with Bertolt Brecht. Engel directed the original production of The Threepenny Opera in 1928. It contains Weill's most famous song, "Mack the Knife" ("Die Moritat von Mackie Messer ").
The Threepenny Opera departs from the conventional approach of musical drama, which we know from the genre of opera. Brecht demanded of the composer and the performing artists not to interpret the scenes psychologically, but to interpret them socio-politically.
- Premiere1928, Berlin
- LibrettoBertold Brecht, based on the Beggar Opera by John Gay and the collaboration of Elisabeth Hauptmann and texts by Karl Klammer
- The main rolesJonathan Peachum, owner of the company Beggar's Friend - Celia Peachum, his wife - Polly Peachum, her daughter - Macheath. named Mackie Messer, ass...
- Recording recommendationCBS, with Lotte Lenya, Erich Schellow, Johanna von Koczian and Willy Trenk conducted by Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg and the Orchestra Sender Freies...
Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera) - The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music. Play with music after John Gay's The Beggar's Opera; in three acts. By Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill in collaboration with Elisabeth Hauptmann. Duration. Full Evening, 65 minutes music. First Performance.
After reading the translation, Brecht called Kurt Weill, a young composer with whom he had been collaborating with on another opera, Mahogonny. Producer Ernst Josef Aufricht—in need of new work to draw attention to his central Berlin Theater am Schiffbauerdamm —commissioned the play.
