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Status: Released

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Release Date: Jan 1, 1995

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Run Time: 2h 43m

Original Language: English

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Production Countries: Germany

Production Companies: 3sat


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Synopsis

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).


Main Cast

Friedrich Karl Praetorius

Friedrich Karl Praetorius

Macheath, genannt Mackie Messer

Age : 72 | Popularity : 3%

Jürgen Holtz

Jürgen Holtz

Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum

Age : 91 | Popularity : 3%

Ingeborg Engelmann

Ingeborg Engelmann

Celia Peachum, seine Frau

Age : N/A | Popularity : 5%

Katherina Lange

Katherina Lange

Polly Peachum, seine Tochter

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Axel Böhmert

Axel Böhmert

Brown, Polizeichef von London

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Dorothee Hartinger

Dorothee Hartinger

Lucy, seine Tochter

Age : 53 | Popularity : 8%

Carola Regnier

Carola Regnier

Die Spelunken-Jenny

Age : 68 | Popularity : 4%

Wilfried Elste

Wilfried Elste

Pastor Kimball

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%


Crew

Department Role Name
Sound Music
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
Kurt Weill
Kurt Weill
Conductor
H.K. Gruber
H.K. Gruber
Writing Book
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
Elisabeth Hauptmann
Elisabeth Hauptmann
Directing Director
Hans Hollmann
Hans Hollmann
Barrie Gavin
Barrie Gavin
Department Role Name

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