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The Threepenny Opera

1995-01-01 · 163 min · ★ 9.0

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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).

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Directors
Hans Hollmann, Barrie Gavin
Production companies
3sat
Countries
Germany
Status
Released

Top Cast

Friedrich Karl PraetoriusFriedrich Karl PraetoriusMacheath, genannt Mackie Messer
Jürgen HoltzJürgen HoltzJonathan Jeremiah Peachum
Ingeborg EngelmannCelia Peachum, seine Frau
Katherina LangePolly Peachum, seine Tochter
Axel BöhmertBrown, Polizeichef von London
Dorothee HartingerDorothee HartingerLucy, seine Tochter
Carola RegnierCarola RegnierDie Spelunken-Jenny
Wilfried ElstePastor Kimball
Stephan GrossmannStephan GrossmannFilch / Trauerweiden-Walter
Michael LuckeEin Moritatensänger / Münz-Matthias
Jörg PoseJörg PoseMakenfinger-Jakob
Waldemar KobusWaldemar KobusSäge-Robert
Eva-Maria StrienAlte Hure
Corinna SchnabelVixen
Renate WickeDolly

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