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The Threepenny Opera
The Threepenny Opera
() is a "
play
with music", translated by German dramatist
Elisabeth Hauptmann
from
John Gay
's 18th-century English
ballad opera
,
The Beggar's Opera
, with music by
Kurt Weill
, and
insertion ballads
by
François Villon
and
Rudyard Kipling
as adapted by
Bertolt Brecht
. The work offers a
Socialist
critique of the
capitalist
world. It opened on 31 August 1928 at Berlin's
Theater am Schiffbauerdamm
.
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