Advantages: Masterpiece of musical theatre Disadvantages: Ending is little too "all lived happily ever after"
The Threepenny Opera transforms opera to the musical theatre. Originally adapted from John Gay’s The Beggar’s opera in 1928, to Die Dreigroschenoper, by German composer Kurt Weill and lyricist Bertolt Brecht, the score weaves together elements of grand opera with cabaret and jazz. The English translation and adaptation was then completed by Marc Blitzstein in 1954.
Brecht met Weill in 1927, when the two men discussed using the genre of opera to ...
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07.07.2004
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