The Threepenny Opera / 1963

The Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and hang Macheath. If not, all the beggars of Soho will disturb the upcoming coronation.

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).

Die Dreigroschenoper / 2004

The Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and hang Macheath. If not, all the beggars of Soho will disturb the upcoming coronation.

Die Dreigroschenoper / 1957

Die Dreigroschenoper / 1972

Brecht & Weill: Die Dreigroschenoper Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2023 / 2023

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Peachum, organizzatore di una vasta rete di finti accattoni londinesi, viene a scoprire la relazione che lega la figlia Polly al malvivente Macheath e monta su tutte le furie; ciò non impedisce ai due di sposarsi ugualmente. Intanto Peachum è deciso a eliminare l'indesiderato genero, peraltro bigamo, con mezzi legali, facendolo arrestare. Varie e confuse vicende si succedono fin quando Macheath, che sta per essere condotto al patibolo, riceve la grazia dalla regina insieme a terre e titolo nobiliare. In realtà l'ultima parola spetta a Peachum, che invita a non prestar fede al lieto fine, perché nella realtà le grazie arrivano molto raramente, soprattutto se a ribellarsi sono i deboli.

The Threepenny Opera / 1931

The French-language version of the The Threepenny Opera with a different cast from the German version.