Die Dreigroschenoper (1995)

Özet

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).

Oyuncular

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  Friedrich Karl Praetorius

  Macheath, genannt Mackie Messer

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  Jürgen Holtz

  Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum

• Ingeborg Engelmann

  Celia Peachum, seine Frau

• Katherina Lange

  Polly Peachum, seine Tochter

• Axel Böhmert

  Brown, Polizeichef von London

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  Dorothee Hartinger

  Lucy, seine Tochter

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  Carola Regnier

  Die Spelunken-Jenny

• Wilfried Elste

  Pastor Kimball

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  Stephan Grossmann

  Filch / Trauerweiden-Walter

• Michael Lucke

  Ein Moritatensänger / Münz-Matthias

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  Jörg Pose

  Makenfinger-Jakob

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  Waldemar Kobus

  Säge-Robert

Ekip

Yönetmen

Hans Hollmann, Barrie Gavin

Hikâye / Eser

Bertolt Brecht, Elisabeth Hauptmann

Müzik

Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht