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Threepenny opera

Title: Threepenny opera / [lyrics] by Bertolt Brecht and [music by] Kurt Weill ; [in a new translation by Ralph Manheim and John Willett].
Author: Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950.
Publication: New York, N.Y. : CBS Records Masterworks, [1976], ℗1976.

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Description

1 audio disc (57 min.) : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereo; 12 in.

Uniform Title

Dreigroschenoper. Selections. English

Alternative Title

Dreigroschenoper.
Three penny opera.

Subjects

Operas > Excerpts
Ballad operas > Excerpts

Note

Ballad opera in three acts.
Sung in English, translated from the German.
Original cast recording.
Title on container : Three penny opera.
Original libretto based on John Gay\u0027s libretto for The beggar\u0027s opera.
Lyrics inserted in container.
Program notes by Joseph Papp and Stanley Silverman on container. Opera synopsis included.

Event (note)

Recorded at Columbia Recording Studios, New York.

Contents

Overture -- Ballad of Mac the Knife -- Peachum\u0027s morning hymn -- " No they can\u0027t" song -- Wedding song for the less well-off -- Cannon song --Liebeslied -- Barbara song -- Concerning the insecurity of the human state --Polly\u0027s lied -- Ballad of sexual obsession -- Pirate Jenny -- Ballad of immoral earnings -- Ballad of gracious living -- Jealousy duet -- What keeps mankind alive? -- Song of the insufficiency of human endeavor -- Solomon song -- Call from the grave -- Ballad in which Macheath begs all men for forgiveness -- Appearance of the messenger on horseback -- Ballad of Mac the Knife.

OCLC

ocm24382917
SCSB-3199431

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries