Die Dreigroschen­oper

Trailer
A play with music

Concert performance

A prelude and eight scenes by Bertolt Brecht.
Based on John Gay's »The Beggar’s Opera«.
Translated from the English by Elisabeth Hauptmann.
Music by Kurt Weill.
Connecting texts for a concert version from the Critical Kurt Weill Edition (2000).

Ab 11 Jahren

80 Minuten, keine Pause

The »honourable businessman« Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum, the captain of the London beggars' mafia, and his adversary, the dangerous criminal Macheath, better known as Mack the Knife, are bitter rivals. However, because the latter enjoys a good relationship with police chief Brown, he and his men are able to go about their crooked business in the London district of Soho largely undisturbed. But Macheath also has a close relationship with Peachum's daughter Polly. When he and Polly finally marry in secret and Peachum hears of it, the conflict between the two opponents escalates even further. Who is good and who is evil within this multi-layered game of deception remains a fairly open question.

»You will now hear an opera. Because this opera was as magnificently conceived as only a beggar could dream of and because it was to be cheap enough for a beggar to pay for, it is called ›Die Dreigroschenoper‹«. These were the words with which Bertolt Brecht outlined his work, first performed in Berlin's Theater am Schiffbauerdamm on 31 August 1928. In this, Brecht and the composer Kurt Weill mercilessly scrutinised the hypocrisy of bourgeois attitudes to morality. Many of Weill's musical compositions, in which elements from jazz, tango, blues and fairground music are skilfully combined with ironic sideswipes at the traditions of opera and operetta, instantly became international hits, including the famous »Lied der Seeräuber-Jenny« or the »Moritat von Mackie Messer«.

Cast

Musikalische Leitung Anthony Bramall
Choreinstudierung Felix Meybier
Dramaturgie Daniel C. Schindler

Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum, Chef einer Bettlerplatte Erwin Windegger
Celia Peachum, seine Frau Dagmar Hellberg
Polly Peachum, seine Tochter Nadine Zeintl
Macheath, Chef einer Platte von Straßenbanditen Maximilian Mayer
»Tiger« Brown, Polizeichef von London Stefan Bischoff
Lucy, seine Tochter Anna-Katharina Tonauer
Trauerweiden-Walter Christian Schleinzer
Hakenfinger-Jakob Holger Ohlmann
Münz-Matthias / Smith Christoph Seidl
Säge-Robert Martin Hausberg
Spelunken-Jenny, Hure Julia Klotz

Musiker/innen des Orchester des Staatstheaters am Gärtnerplatz

Chor des Staatstheaters am Gärtnerplatz