Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Background [ ] Origins [ ] In the winter of 1927/28, Elizabeth Hauptmann, Brecht's lover at the time, received a copy of Gay's play from friends in England and, fascinated by the female characters and its critique of the condition of the London poor, began translating it into German. Brecht at first took little interest in her project, but in April 1928 he attempted to interest the impresario [] in a play he was writing called Fleischhacker, which he had, in fact, already promised to another producer. Aufricht was seeking a production to launch his new theatre company at the in Berlin, but was not impressed by the sound of Fleischhacker.

Brecht immediately proposed a translation of The Beggar's Opera instead, claiming that he himself had been translating it. He delivered Hauptmann's translation to Aufricht, who immediately signed a contract for it. Brecht's major addition to Hauptmann's text was the addition of four songs by the French poet.

Rather than translate the French himself, he used (uncredited) the translations by K. Ammer ( []), the same source he had been using since his earliest plays. The score by Weill uses only one of the melodies which wrote for the original Beggar's Opera. The title Die Dreigroschenoper was determined only a week before the opening; it had been previously announced as simply The Beggar's Opera (in English), with the subtitle 'Die Luden-Oper' ('The 's Opera'). Writing in 1929, Weill made the political and artistic intents of the work clear: With the Dreigroschenoper we reach a public which either did not know us at all or thought us incapable of captivating listeners [.] Opera was founded as an aristocratic form of art [.] If the framework of opera is unable to withstand the impact of the age, then this framework must be destroyed.In the Dreigroschenoper, reconstruction was possible insofar as here we had a chance of starting from scratch. Weill claimed at the time that 'music cannot further the action of the play or create its background', but achieves its proper value when it interrupts the action at the right moments.'

Music [ ] Weill's score shows influence of jazz and German dance-music of the time. The orchestration involves a small ensemble with a good deal of doubling-up on instruments (in the original performances, for example, some 7 players covered a total of 23 instrumental parts, though modern performances typically use a few more players). • The word refers to a coin in Britain's pre-decimal currency; the work's title in its English-language translation reflects the common pronunciation of that coin ('THREP-penny'). The coin was discontinued in 1971 after the decimalization of sterling. •, pp. 108–109. •, pp. 471–472.

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Newsletter of the literary division of the. Summer 2009 • •, p. 72. 30 • •, p. 81.

• ^, 'The Threepenny Opera' website, accessed 19 September 2016 • ^, p. 63. •, pp. 64–65. •, photos, costumes;, Piccolo Teatro di Milano, accessed 27 June 2015. •, pp. 50–77. •, pp. 28–29. • House of Velour (2018-05-03),, retrieved 2018-05-20 • Von Eckardt, Wolf; (1975). Bertolt Brecht's Berlin.