Die Dreigroschenoper
A political musical by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill.
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.
Usually translated as The Threepenny Opera, though the BBC apparently insisted on translating it as The Tuppenny-Ha'penny Opera (to emphasise the satire).
Sources
Kurt Weill: The Threepenny Opera (ed Stephen Hinton) CUP Archive, 1990[1]
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