The Threepenny Opera

Bertolt Brecht author Kurt Weill author Elisabeth Hauptmann author John Willett translator Ralph Manheim translator Anja Hartl editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:10th Feb '22

Should be back in stock very soon

The Threepenny Opera cover

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

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 136g

152 pages