DIE DREIGROSCHENOPER

In the organizer's words:

The "honorable businessman" Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum, the head of the London beggar mafia, and his opponent, the felon Macheath, known as Mackie Messer, are bitter rivals. However, as the latter maintains good relations with Chief Constable Brown, he and his men can pursue their crooked business in London's Soho district largely unmolested. But Macheath also has a close relationship with Peachum's daughter Polly. When he and Polly finally marry in secret and Peachum finds out about it, the conflict between the two rivals comes to a head. It remains largely unclear who is the good guy and who is the bad guy in this multi-layered conundrum.

"You are about to hear an opera. Because this opera was intended to be as sumptuous as only beggars can dream of, and because it was to be so cheap that beggars could pay for it, it is called 'The Threepenny Opera'". With these words, Bertolt Brecht outlined his play, which premiered on August 31, 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin. In it, Brecht and
composer Kurt Weill ruthlessly reckoned with the hypocrisy of bourgeois moral concepts. Many of Weill's musical pieces, in which elements of jazz, tango, blues and fairground music are skillfully combined with ironic sideswipes at the traditions of opera and operetta, quickly became worldwide hits, including the famous "Song of Pirate Jenny" and the "Moritat von Mackie Messer". Experience this timeless classic at Gärtnerplatz in a thrilling concert performance.