In The Threepenny Opera, Bertolt Brecht intends to denounce prostitution, misery and abuse of power in the midst of the economic crisis: The work premiered in Berlin in 1928, a time (the end of the 1920s) convulsive. Brecht's text is a fierce criticism against capitalism. For it, The author brings to the stage an updated revision of the musical parody “The Beggars' Opera”, from the Englishman John Gay, and shows the world the crudest version of this economic system, which Brecht considers to function as a large machinery of organized crime.
A work with music in a prologue and eight scenes based on “The Beggar's Opera” by John Gay, by Bertolt Brecht (text) y Kurt Weill (music) in collaboration with Elisabeth Hauptmann.
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Coke Mesh
Carmen Barrantes
Omar Calicchio
Paula Iwasaki
Miquel Mars
Cristina Garcia
Andrea Guash
Pablo Novoa
Nestor Ballesteros
