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Title: Threepenny Opera, The
Author: HARTL ANJA / BRECHT BERTOLT / WEILL KUR
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 07/04/2022
Imprint: BLOOMSBURY
Price: $27.00
Publishing status: Active
One of Bertolt Brecht’s best-loved and most performed plays, The Threepenny Opera is a satire on the bourgeois society of the Weimar Republic, but set in a mock-Victorian Soho. It is published here with commentary and notes by Anja Hartl.
One of Bertolt Brecht’s best-loved and most performed plays, The Threepenny Opera was first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin (now the home of the Berliner Ensemble).
Based on the eighteenth-century The Beggar’s Opera by John Gay, the play is a satire on the bourgeois society of the Weimar Republic, but set in a mock-Victorian Soho.
With Kurt Weill’s music, which was one of the earliest and most successful attempts to introduce the jazz idiom into the theatre, it became a popular hit throughout the western world.
This new edition is published here in John Willett and Ralph Manhein’s classic translation with commentary and notes by Anja Hartl.
ISBN: 9781350205284
Pages: 152