The Threepenny Opera
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Author | : Stephen Hinton |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1990-07-26 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780521338882 |
Download Kurt Weill: The Threepenny Opera Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This is a book on the best known of the Weill-Brecht collaborations which explores the extent and significance of the composer's contribution. After a detailed reconstruction of the work's genesis and continued revision over three decades, Stephen Hinton examines the spin-offs on which Weill and Brecht participated: the instrumental suite, the film, the lawsuit, the novel, and the musical and textual revisions of songs. In a survey of the stage history, Hinton pays particular attention to pioneering productions in Germany and Great Britain. Kim Kowalke provides an exhaustive account of the history of The Threepenny Opera in America, Geoffrey Abbott addresses questions concerning authentic performance practice, and David Drew analyses large-scale motivic relationships in the music. Among the earliest writings on the work reprinted here, those by Theodor W. Adorno, Ernst Bloch and Walter Benjamin appear for the first time in English translation. The book contains numerous illustrations, a discography, and music examples.
Author | : Kurt Weill |
Publisher | : Grove Press |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780802150394 |
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Brecht's famous adaptation to the modern era of John Gay's The beggar's opera, satirizing social and political beliefs through its portrayal of a world of thieves and prostitutes.
Author | : Stef Smith |
Publisher | : NHB Modern Plays |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Dystopian plays |
ISBN | : 9781848425286 |
Download Human Animals Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In the overcrowded city, nature is getting out of control. The mice are scratching between walls, the pigeons are diseased and the foxes are beginning to rule the streets. The problem is growing. It's contagious. It has to be stopped, before it's too late. Stef Smith's play Human Animals premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in May 2016, in a production directed by Hamish Pirie.
Author | : Bertolt Brecht |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2022-02-10 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 135020529X |
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One of Bertolt Brecht's best-loved and most performed plays, The Threepenny Opera was first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin (now the home of the Berliner Ensemble). Based on the eighteenth-century The Beggar's Opera by John Gay, the play is a satire on the bourgeois society of the Weimar Republic, but set in a mock-Victorian Soho. With Kurt Weill's music, which was one of the earliest and most successful attempts to introduce the jazz idiom into the theatre, it became a popular hit throughout the western world. This new edition is published here in John Willett and Ralph Manhein's classic translation with commentary and notes by Anja Hartl.
Author | : Pamela Katz |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 2015-12-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0307744167 |
Download The Partnership Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This fascinating portrait of two of the most brilliant theater artists of the twentieth century—and the women who made their work possible—is set against the explosive years of the Weimar Republic. Among the most outsized personalities of the sizzling, decadent period between the Great War and the Nazis’ rise to power were the renegade poet Bertolt Brecht and the avant-garde composer Kurt Weill. These two young geniuses and the three women vital to their work—actresses Lotte Lenya and Helene Weigel and writer Elisabeth Hauptmann—joined talents to create the theatrical masterworks The Threepenny Opera and The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, only to split in rancor as their culture cracked open and their differences became irreconcilable. The Partnership is the first book to tell the full story of one of the most important creative collaborations of the last century, and the first to give full credit to the women who contributed their enormous gifts. Theirs is a thrilling story of artistic daring entwined with sexual freedom during the Weimar Republic’s most fevered years, a time when art and politics and society were inextricably mixed.
Author | : Richard Traubner |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 511 |
Release | : 2004-06 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1135887837 |
Download Operetta Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Considered the classic history of this important musical theater form. Traubner's book, first published in 1983, is still recognized as the key history of the people and productions that made operetta a worldwide phenomenon.
Author | : Bertolt Brecht |
Publisher | : [London] : B. Hanison |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Capitalists and financiers |
ISBN | : |
Download Threepenny Novel Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
"Brecht's only novel is, of course, based on his own Threepenny Opera, which was itself based on John Gay's The Beggar's Opera. Set in Victorian London, the novel feels similar to Dickens in many ways, but written with a very dry humour and none of the sentimentality. The plot mostly involves the extremely dodgy business dealings of the characters Peachum and Macheath, along with some equally dubious bankers and financiers - in fact it feels surprisingly relevant to current times! A satirical yet rather subtle attack on capitalist society, Brecht's vision here is of a world in which the poor and weak are continually exploited in the most casual fashion by the powerful and unscrupulous who always come out on top. It's very good writing but may be a little slow-going for some."--Goodreads
Author | : Bertolt Brecht |
Publisher | : Grove Press |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1994-04 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780802151476 |
Download Edward II Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Edward II is, in a sense, Bertolt Brecht's only tragedy. Based on Christopher Marlowe's classic of the same name, it departs from its source as widely as The Threepenny Opera departs from Gay's Beggar's Opera. Brecht has made a multitude of technical changes calculated to streamline the play, with a smaller cast and simpler action, and he has created virtually new and totally compelling characters with his extravagant variations on Anne, Edward's queen, and Mortimer, the villain of the piece. Brecht also reinterprets Marlowe's famously homosexual protagonist, creating an Edward initially more crudely homoerotic and ultimately more truly heroic. Brecht's Edward is a hero for the modern era: an existential hero defying a meaningless universe with his courage.
Author | : Foster Hirsch |
Publisher | : Hal Leonard Corporation |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2004-02-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780879109905 |
Download Kurt Weill on Stage Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
(Limelight). His best-known song is "Mack the Knife," with words by Bertolt Brecht, from The Threepenny Opera , first performed in Weimar Berlin in 1928. Five years later, Kurt Weill fled the Nazis to come to America, where he soon emerged as one of the most admired composers of the Broadway musical stage. His shows included: Knickerbocker Holiday, Lady in the Dark, One Touch of Venus, Street Scene and Lost in the Stars . His songs: "My Ship," "September Song," "Speak Low" and "It Never Was You." This biography concentrates on Weill's career in the United States, but its aim is to explore the truth in the comment made by Weill's wife, the unforgettable Lotte Lenya: "There is no American Weill, there is no German Weill. There is no difference between them. There is only Weill."
Author | : Bertolt Brecht |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
Download The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
These six plays represent the best and most humorous of Brecht's shorter works. The Jewish Wife is from the Fear and Misery in the Third Reich cycle of one-act plays, which, along with In Search of Justice and The Informer, chromicles the hardships of life in Nazi Germany. The Exception and the Rule, one of Brecht's most popular short works, grimly depicts the consequences of the mutually dependent -- yet inevitable inequitable -- relationship between the priviledged and the poor; it is included here with The Measures Taken and The Elephant Calf. Though all of these ales of horror, ad Eric Bentley calls them, have tragic undertones, they are also infused with farcical absurdities and cosmic irony so characteristic of Brecht's work.