Brecht's The Threepenny Opera: Théâtre des Champs‐Elysées
About the Event
Visionary stage director Robert Wilson offers his version of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's masterwork, 'Die Dreigroschenoper', with the Berliner Ensemble.
This 'play with music', first performed during the summer of 1928 in Berlin, quickly became a classic of the theater world. It is a cutting criticism of the capitalist world and the corrupt bourgeoisie, with extravagant characters in an impressive staging, mixing theater with opera, music hall, circus, and the energy of jazz music. Robert Wilson's production of this powerful cabaret, with its abstract settings and its neon lights, transforms the stage in a total work of art both beautiful and strange.
Sung in German, with French surtitles.
Cast / Production
Staging and sets, lights concepts: Robert Wilson
Staging collaboration : Ann‐Christin Rommen
Costumes: Jacques Reynaud
Dramaturgy: Jutta Ferbers, Anika Bárdos
Lights: Andreas Fuchs, Ulrich Eh
J. J. Peachum: Jürgen Holtz
Celia Peachum: Traute Hoess
Polly Peachum: Johanna Griebel
Macheath: Christopher Nell
Tiger Brown: Axel Werner
Lucy Brown: Anna Graenzer
Jenny: Angela Winkler
Filch: Georgios Tsivanoglou
Walter: Luca Schaub
Matthias: Martin Schneider
Jakob: Boris Jacoby
Robert: Marko Schmidt
Jimmy: Raphael Dwinger
Ede: Jörg Thieme
Smith: Uli Pleßmann
Kimball: Michael Kinkel
Betty: Anke Engelsmann
An old prostitute: Ursula Höpfner‐Tabori
Vixen: Karla Sengteller
Dolly: Claudia Burckhardt
Molly: Gabriele Völsch
A messenger: Gerd Kunath
A voice: Walter Schmidinger
Musical direction: Hans‐Jörn Brandenburg, Stefan Rager
Orchestra of the Berliner Ensemble 'The Threepenny Orchestra'
