Year
1928
Time
55'
Instr.
9 Voc. 2Klar.(Sax.) 2Trp. Trb. Bj.(Gtr. Haw.gtr.) Timp. Perc. Pno.(Harm./Cel.)
The Threepenny Opera (Dreigroschenoper), written in 1928, was based on John Gray’s ‘Beggar’s Opera’ from 1728. An opera about love and betrayal, in Brecht’s words:
“conceived with sumptuousness only baggars can dream of - and cheapness that beggars can afford”.
This version is an English adaptation, made in 1954 by Marc Blitzstein