three penny opera (2012)
about
Text by Bertolt Brecht
Music by Kurt Weill
Based on The Beggar’s Opera by John Gay with music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch. With interpolated ballads from François Villon and Rudyard Kipling.
Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera) has achieved since its premiere in 1928. Brecht and Weill endeavored to produce a work that would erase the division between high art and popular culture. They hoped that such a creation could effect change by revealing social corruption and injustice and although Threepenny recalls the Golden 20s era in Berlin, its origins are tied to a ballad opera composed 200 years earlier.
Performance dante / venue:
Wednesday, November 7, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Ave., Toronto
Sung in German and English, with English translation (if you’ve been good)
Production Team
Music Director – Cathy Nosaty
James Levesque – Narrator
David Roth – Peachum
Joseph Angelo – Filch
Heather Jewson – Mrs. Peachum
Jeremy Ludwig – Macheath
Shaun Alphonso – Fast Eddie
Joseph Levesque – Whiny Walt
Maureen Batt – Polly
Laura McAlpine – Jenny
Keith Lam – Chief Brown
Beth Hagerman – Debbie Dallas
Rebecca Russell – Mrs. Seaword
Erin Bardua – Lucy
and special guest Bunni Lapin
