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Author Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950.

Title Kurt Weill's The threepenny opera / [English adaptation of book and lyrics by Marc Blitzstein ; music by Kurt Weill ; original text by Bert Brecht].

Publication Info. [Hamburg] : Polydor, [between 1980 and 1989?]
℗1954

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 Moore Audio CD  CD 2089    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
 Talbott Media  CD 19806v    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
Description 1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Physical Medium 4 3/4 in.
Description digital
optical
1.4 m/s
stereo
digital recording
Performer Features Lotte Lenya, Scott Merrill, Martin Wolfson, Jo Sullivan, Charlotte Rae, Beatrice Arthur, George Tyne ; Threepenny Opera Company ; Samuel Matlowsky, director.
Event Recorded 1954 at the Theater de Lys, New York City.
Note Compact disc.
Program notes by Stanley Green ([4 p.) in container.
Contents Prologue. -- Overture. -- The ballad of Mack the Knife. -- Morning anthem. -- Instead-of-song. -- Wedding song. -- Pirate Jenny. -- Army song. -- Love song. -- Ballad of dependency. -- Melodrama and Polly's song. -- Ballad of the easy life. -- The world is mean. -- Barbara song. -- Tango-ballad. -- Jealousy duet. -- How to survive. -- Useless song. -- Solomon song. -- Call from the grave. -- Death message. -- Finale: The mounted messenger.
Genre/Form Operas.
Operas.
Musicals.
Musicals.
Sound recordings.
Sound recordings.
Added Author Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956, librettist.
Blitzstein, Marc, translator.
Lenya, Lotte, singer.
Merrill, Scott, singer.
Wolfson, Martin, singer.
Sullivan, Jo, singer.
Rae, Charlotte, 1926-2018, singer.
Arthur, Beatrice, singer.
Tyne, George, singer.
Matlowsky, Samuel, conductor.
Threepenny Opera Company, performer.
Added Title Dreigroschenoper. English
Threepenny opera
Note Parallel title on container: Dreigroschenoper
Standard No. 042282026026
Music No. 820 260-2 Polydor