10 Facts About Threepenny Opera

Threepenny Opera is a "play with music" by Bertolt Brecht, adapted from a translation by Elisabeth Hauptmann of John Gay's 18th-century English ballad opera, The Beggar's Opera, and four ballads by Francois Villon, with music by Kurt Weill.

Songs from The Threepenny Opera have been widely covered and become standards, most notably "" and "".

Brecht immediately proposed a translation of The Beggar's Opera instead, claiming that he himself had been translating it.

Threepenny Opera delivered Hauptmann's translation to Aufricht, who immediately signed a contract for it.

Threepenny Opera was first performed at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in 1928 on a set designed by Caspar Neher.

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