Weill / Brecht The Threepenny Opera
(sung in German with English surtitles)

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Vladimir Jurowski conductor
Mark Padmore Macheath
Sir John Tomlinson J J Peachum
Dame Felicity Palmer Mrs Peachum
Allison Bell Polly Peachum
Nicholas Folwell Tiger Brown
Gabriela Istoc Lucy Brown
Meow Meow Jenny
Max Hopp narrator
Ted Huffman director
Malcolm Rippeth lighting designer
London Philharmonic Choir

There will be no interval in this performance.



THE THREEPENNY OPERA
Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht

Kurt Weill never set out to write a masterpiece – instead to provoke and entertain normal people with ready, urgent music that made a relevant political point. The Threepenny Opera, though, has proved a longstanding touchstone. A surrealistic and riotous juxtaposition of 18th-century ballad texts, European swing and dance music and American jazz all conceived on an operatic scale proved as nourishing as it did provocative. Weill’s is one of those rare seminal creations that remains ever-relevant, seen here in a performance taking place on the anniversary of Weill’s birth, and featuring ‘post-modern cabaret diva’ Meow Meow – herself a phenomenon in human form who has to be seen to believed.

Free performances | 6.00pm–6.45pm | 9.45pm–10.15pm | The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall
Foyle Future Firsts present Weill’s Mahagonny Songspiel – two chances to hear Weill and Brecht’s first collaboration.

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Select a link below to listen to selected movements from this concert (Flash Player opens in a new window).

Weill: Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera) - Prelude: Overture
Weill: Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera) - Prelude: Moritat von Mackie Messer (Ballad of Mack the Knife): Und der Haifisch, der hat Zahne (Ballad Singer)
Weill: Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera) - Act I: Morgenchoral des Peachum (Peachum's Morning Hymn): Wach' auf, du verrotteter Christ! (Peachum)
Weill: Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera) - Act II: Melodram: Ach, Mac, reiss mir nicht (Polly, Macheath)
Weill: Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera) - Act II: Und der kommt doch nicht wieder, "Polly's Song" (Polly)
Weill: Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera) - Act III: Finale: Horch, wer kommt? (Chorus, Brown, Mrs. Peachum, Peachum, Macheath, Polly)

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