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Categories: 1928 musicals, Broadway musicals, Plays based on other plays, German-language operas, Operas by Kurt Weill
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The Threepenny Opera  3 penny opera  Ballad of the Easy Life  Ballade von der sexuellen Hörigkeit  Barbara Song
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The Threepenny Opera is a German "play with music" by Bertolt Brecht, adapted from a translation by Elisabeth Hauptmann of John Gay's 18th-century English ballad opera, The Beggar's Opera, and four ballads by François Villon, with music by Kurt Weill. Wikipedia
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The Threepenny Opera is a German "play with music" by Bertolt Brecht, adapted from a translation by Elisabeth Hauptmann of John Gay's 18th-century English ballad opera, The Beggar's Opera, and four ballads by François Villon, with music by Kurt Weill. Wikipedia
1928 musical play by Bertolt Brecht; provides a socialist critique of capitalism; adapted from John Gay's 18th-century ballad opera The Beggar's Opera with music by Kurt Weill and insertion ballads by François Villon and Rudyard Kipling Wikidata
IS A
literary work
HAS PART
Pirate Jenny
AUTHOR
Brecht
Elisabeth Hauptmann
BASED ON
The Beggar's Opera
COMPOSER
Weill
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
Germany
DERIVATIVE WORK
The Threepenny Opera
Mack the Knife
FORMAT OF CREATIVE WORK
play
GENRE
comedy
play
LANGUAGE OF WORK OR NAME
German
LIBRETTIST
Brecht
LOCATION OF FIRST PERFORMANCE
Theater am Schiffbauerdamm
LYRICS BY
Brecht
MAIN SUBJECT
gangster
poverty
NARRATIVE LOCATION
London
Wikipedia
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The Threepenny Opera
Wikidata
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The Threepenny Opera
Wikipedia Redirections
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3 penny opera, Ballad of the Easy Life, Ballade von der sexuellen Hörigkeit, Barbara Song, Call from the Grave, Cannon Song, Die Dreigroschenoper, Die Driegroschenoper, Die Greigroschenoper, Dreigroschenoper, Survival Song, Tango Ballade, The 3 Penny Opera, The Ballad of the Easy Life, The Barbara Song, The Cannon Song, The Three-Penny Opera, The Three Penny Opera, Three Penny Opera, Threepenny Opera
Wikidata Alias
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Die Dreigroschenoper

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