Threepenny Opera

Name: Threepenny Opera
Brand: Kurt Weill
SKU: 9781350205284
Price: 14.03 GBP
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by Kurt Weill

Title:

Threepenny Opera

Author:

Kurt Weill

Series (if any):

Student Editions

Edited by:

Hartl, Anja (University of Innsbruck, Austria)

Format:

Paperback

Number of pages:

152 pages

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

ISBN-13:

9781350205284

EAN:

9781350205284

Publication Date:

10/02/2022

Classifications:

Plays, playscripts

Weight (g):

292

Dimensions (mm):

129 x 197 x 13

Publication Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Condition:

New

Price:£14.03

1 copies in stock

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Description

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.