The Threepenny Opera is a biting satire of the post-war rise of capitalism, wrapped up in Weill's jazzy score, and the tale of Macheath (Mack the Knife), a debonair crime lord on the verge of turning his illegal empire into a legitimate business. When Macheath marries young Polly Peachum, her father is enraged. · Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s "The Threepenny Opera" premieres in Berlin. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera) receives its world premiere in Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins. The Threepenny Opera. Polly, the only daughter of Mr. Peachum, king of the beggars, marries the notorious thief Macheath. Motivated by his own self-interest, Peachum not only disapproves of the match, but he also sees Macheath as a mortal enemy and threat to his business. He and his wife, Celia, hatch a plan to get Macheath arrested and hanged, but Polly informs them that London’s chief of Missing: Bertolt Brecht.
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The Threepenny Opera was Brecht's first and greatest commercial success, and it remains one of his best-loved and most-performed plays. Based on John Gay's eighteenth-century Beggar's Opera, the play is set in Victorian England's Soho but satirizes the bourgeois society of the Weimar Republic through its wry love story of Polly Peachum and "Mack the Knife" Macheath. The Threepenny Opera, musical drama in three acts written by Bertolt Brecht in collaboration with composer Kurt Weill, produced in German as Die Dreigroschenoper in and published the following year. The play was adapted by Elisabeth Hauptmann from John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera (). Antihero. The Threepenny Opera is a play by Bertolt Brecht that was first performed in
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