Universal Edition - Kurt Weill – The Threepenny Opera | new version after the Complete Edition

Kurt Weill
02.03.1900—03.04.1950

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Kurt Weill
The Threepenny Opera | new version after the Complete Edition

Work Details
Year of composition: 1928
Subtitle: Ein Stück mit Musik in einem Vorspiel und 8 Bildern
Version: new version after the Complete Edition
Composer: Kurt Weill
Edited by: Edward Harsh; Stephen Hinton
Text Source: "The Beggar's Opera" (engl.)
Text Author: François Villon; Joseph Rudyard Kipling
Librettist: Bertolt Brecht
Translator: Elisabeth Hauptmann; Michael Feingold; Karl Anton Klammer
Parts: Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum, head of a gang of beggars
Mrs. Peachum
Polly Peachum, their daughter
Macheath, head of a gang of crooks
Brown, Chief of London Police
Lucy, his daughter
Macheath's gang, street bandits: Walt Dreary, Crook Finger Jack, Matt of the Mint, Sawtooth Bob, Ed, Jimmy
Filch, one of Peachum's beggars
Jenny Diver, a whore
Smith, a police constable
Reverend Kimball
Beggars, Whores (Dolly, Betty, Vixer, Molly, and others), Policemen
Instrumentation details: alto saxophone in Eb (+fl; picc; cl(Bb); sop.sax(Bb); bar.sax(Eb)); tenor saxophone in Bb (+cl(Bb); bsn; sop.sax(Bb)); trumpet in C; trombone (+cb); bjo (+band; vc; guit; hawaii guit; mand); timpani (+perc); harmonium (+pno; cel)
Table of Contents: 1. Ouvertüre; Vorspiel: 2. Die Moritat von Mackie Messer; 1. Akt, 1. Bild: 3. Morgenchoral des Peachum; 4. Anstatt daß-Song; 2. Bild: 5a. Hochzeitslied (unbegleitet); 5b. Hochzeitslied (unbegleitet); 6. Seeräuberjenny; A6. Seeräuberjenny (zusätzliche Strophe); 7. Kanonensong; 5c. Hochzeitslied; 8. Liebeslied; 3. Bild: 9. Barbarasong; 10. Erstes Dreigroschenfinale
10. Erstes Dreigroschenfinale; 2. Akt, 4. Bild: 11. Melodram; A11. Pollys Lied; Ax1. Die Ballade von der sexuellen Hörigkeit; 5. Bild: 12. Zuhälterballade; A12. Zuhälterballade (zusätzliche Strophe); 6. Bild: 13. Ballade vom angenehmen Leben; 14. Eifersuchtsduett; A14. Eifersuchtsduett (zusätzliche Strophe); 15. Zweites Dreigroschenfinale; 3. Akt, 7. Bild: 16a. Lied von der Unzulänglichkeit menschlichen Strebens; 16b. Reminiszenz;
Scenery: 8
Remarks: Nach der kritischen Gesamtausgabe

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World Première
Location: Berlin / Germany
Date: 31.08.1928
Conductor: Theo Mackeben
Scenery: Erich Engel

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