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The Threepenny Opera (1995)

ALL 01/01/1995 (en) Music 163 Min
  • Release
    01/01/1995
  • Production
    3sat
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  • Original title
    Die Dreigroschenoper
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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Overview

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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  1. Friedrich Karl Praetorius

    Macheath, genannt Mackie Messer

  2. Jürgen Holtz

    Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum

  3. Ingeborg Engelmann

    Celia Peachum, seine Frau

  4. Katherina Lange

    Polly Peachum, seine Tochter

  5. Axel Böhmert

    Brown, Polizeichef von London

  6. Dorothee Hartinger

    Lucy, seine Tochter

  7. Carola Regnier

    Die Spelunken-Jenny

  8. Wilfried Elste

    Pastor Kimball

  9. Stephan Grossmann

    Filch / Trauerweiden-Walter

  10. Michael Lucke

    Ein Moritatensänger / Münz-Matthias

  11. Jörg Pose

    Makenfinger-Jakob

  12. Waldemar Kobus

    Säge-Robert

  13. Eva-Maria Strien

    Alte Hure

  14. Corinna Schnabel

    Vixen

  15. Renate Wicke

    Dolly

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 15 , Crews : 7

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The Threepenny Opera (1995) 163 Min

ALL 01/01/1995 (en)
Music
  • Release 01/01/1995
  • Production
    3sat
  • Original title Die Dreigroschenoper
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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).

  1. Hans Hollmann, Barrie Gavin

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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