The Threepenny Opera (1995)

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).

Directing:
  • Hans Hollmann
  • Barrie Gavin

Writing:
  • Bertolt Brecht
  • Elisabeth Hauptmann

Stars:
Release Date: 1995-01-01
  • Country: DE
  • Language: Deutsch
  • Runtime: 163
Stephan Grossmann
Stephan Gross...
Filch / Trauerweiden-Walter
Waldemar Kobus
Waldemar Kobu...
Säge-Robert
Jürgen Holtz
Jürgen Holtz
Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum
Carola Regnier
Carola Regnie...
Die Spelunken-Jenny
Friedrich Karl Praetorius
Friedrich Kar...
Macheath, genannt Mackie Messer
Dorothee Hartinger
Dorothee Hart...
Lucy, seine Tochter
Jörg Pose
Jörg Pose
Makenfinger-Jakob
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