the threepenny opera

  • 1The Threepenny Opera — For the 1931 film, see The Threepenny Opera (1931 film). For the 1990 film, see Mack the Knife (film). The Threepenny Opera Original German poster from Berlin, 1928. Music Kurt Weill …

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  • 2The Threepenny Opera — (Die Dreigroschenoper)    In 1928 the new intendant of the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Ernst Josef Aufricht, chanced upon Elisabeth Hauptmann s translation of The Beggar s Opera. Originally writ ten in 1728 by John Gay, the work had recently… …

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  • 3The Threepenny Opera (1931 film) — The Threepenny Opera Directed by G. W. Pabst Produced by Seymour Nebenzal …

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  • 4Threepenny Opera — Threepenny Op|e|ra, The (1928) an ↑opera with music by Kurt Weill and words by Bertolt Brecht, based on The Beggar s Opera (1728) by John ↑Gay …

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  • 5Down in the Valley (opera) — This article is about the opera. For other uses, see Down in the Valley (disambiguation). Down in the Valley is a folk opera in one act by composer Kurt Weill and librettist Arnold Sundgaard, initially composed and conceived for the radio in 1945 …

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  • 6The Beggar's Opera — is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay. It is one of the watershed plays in Augustan drama and is the only example of the once thriving genre of satirical ballad opera to remain popular today. Ballad operas were satiric… …

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  • 7Japan's Threepenny Opera — (1959) is a novel by Takeshi Kaiko.The name was derived from Bertold Brecht s Threepenny Opera and in a way is its variant, in the Japanese setting.The novel is based on actual events. It is set in post World War II Japan. In the middle of Kyoto… …

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  • 8Opera in German — is the opera of the German speaking countries, most notably Germany (or the historic states which now form the Federal Republic of Germany) and Austria. This article focuses on opera in the German language, with brief mentions of German or… …

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  • 9The opera corpus — is a list of nearly 2,500 works by more than 775 individual opera composers. Some of the works listed below are still being performed today   but many are not. The principal works of the major composers are given as well as those of historical… …

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  • 10The Flight across the Ocean — (Der Ozeanflug) is a Lehrstück by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht, inspired by We, Charles Lindbergh s 1927 account of his transatlantic flight. Written for the Baden Baden Music Festival, it was originally entitled Lindbergh s Flight (Der… …

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