The Threepenny Opera: Theater an der Wien
About the Event
Weill's music to Brecht's libretto uses classical music schemes as well as modern rhythms and forms of the time.
The Threepenny Opera satirizes the double standards of the bourgeoisie during capitalism. Weill himself called his opera "the most consistent reaction to Wagner."
Peachum is the head and at the same time exploiter of all beggars in London. The only one he cannot control is his daughter Polly who decides to marry her father's rival Macheath. Peachum and his wife plot to have Macheath arrested and sentenced to death.
During his weekly visit with a prostitute Macheath gets caught by the police. He is saved from the gallows at the very last minute by the queen who pardons him because it is the day of her coronation.
German with German surtitles
Cast / Production
Conductor: Johannes Kalitzke
Director: Keith Warner
Set design: Boris Kudlicka
Costume design: Kaspar Glarner
Light design: Bruno Poet
Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum, Head of a Beggar´s gang: Florian Boesch
Mrs. Peachum: Angelika Kirchschlager
Polly Peachum, her daugther: Nina Bernsteiner
Macheath, Head of a Streets thugs: Tobias Moretti
Brown, Chief of Police of London: Markus Butter
Dive‐Jenny, Hure: Anne Sofie von Otter
Orchestra: Klangforum Wien
Chorus: Arnold Schoenberg Chor
