The Threepenny Opera
Also known as Die Dreigroschenoper
1928 musical play by Bertolt Brecht; adapted from John Gay's 18th-century ballad opera The Beggar's Opera with music by Kurt Weill and insertion ballads by François Villon and Rudyard Kipling
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- Author
- Bertolt Brecht
- First published
- 1955
- Editions
- 58
- Subjects
- Continental european drama (dramatic works by one author), Berliner Ensemble, Operas, Drama, Continental european, Fortification, Fortification--united states--juvenile literature, Pt2603.r397 d7 1968
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Key facts
- Music
- Kurt Weill
- Lyrics
- Bertolt Brecht , Uncredited: François Villon (four songs translated by K. L. Ammer )
- Book
- Bertolt Brecht
- Basis
- The Beggar's Opera by John Gay , translated by Elisabeth Hauptmann
- Premiere
- 31 August 1928 : Theater am Schiffbauerdamm , Berlin
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The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper [diː dʁaɪˈɡʁɔʃn̩ˌʔoːpɐ]) is a 1928 German "play with music" by Bertolt Brecht, adapted from a translation by Elisabeth Hauptmann of John Gay's 18th-century English ballad opera The Beggar's Opera, and four ballads by François Villon, with music by Kurt Weill. Although there is debate as to how much contribution Hauptmann might have made to the libretto, Brecht is usually listed as sole author and Hauptmann as the sole translator, which was probably an unfair oversimplification typical of the time.
The work offers a socialist critique of the capitalist world. It opened on 31 August 1928 at Berlin's Theater am Schiffbauerdamm.