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| − | Done in collaboration with translator Elisabeth Hauptmann and set designer Caspar Neher, the musical was adapted from an 18th-century English ballad opera, John Gay's ''The Beggar's Opera'', and offers a Socialist critique of the capitalist world. It opened on 31 August 1928 at Berlin's Theater am Schiffbauerdamm.
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| − | Usually translated as ''[[The Threepenny Opera]]'', though the BBC apparently insisted on translating it as ''[[The Tuppenny-Ha'penny Opera]]'' (to emphasise the satire).
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| − | See '''[[The Threepenny Opera]]'''
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| − | ''Kurt Weill: The Threepenny Opera'' (ed Stephen Hinton) CUP Archive, 1990[http://books.google.co.za/books?id=pJU4AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA72&lpg=PA72&dq=The+Ha'penny+Opera+text&source=bl&ots=-yUORp5Q7V&sig=o-lH-RuiMVDj3gZ7NZSRm4Oh-jM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=QCLOU_2FEKvT7AaI6oD4Bw&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=The%20Ha'penny%20Opera%20text&f=false]
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