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
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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