West Bay Opera: The Threepenny Opera

49th Season
2004–2005

The Threepenny Opera
(Die Dreigroschenoper)
Music by Kurt Weill
Libretto by Bertolt Brecht
English adaptation by Marc Blitzstein
Play with music, after The Beggar’s Opera by John Gay

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first performed August 31, 1928, at Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin
West Bay Opera première

Six Performances Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto
(in English with English supertitles) Conductor: Barbara Day Turner Stage Director: Kenneth Tigar

Friday, May 27, 2005 at 8:00 PM
Saturday, May 28, 2005 at 8:00 PM
Sunday, May 29, 2005 at 2:00 PM

Friday, June 3, 2005 at 8:00 PM
Saturday, June 4, 2005 at 8:00 PM
Sunday, June 5, 2005 at 2:00 PM

Illustrated Synopsis (set and costume sketches)

Costume Sketches

Set Sketches

Set Model

The Program (meet the cast & crew)

Performance Pictures

Previews & Reviews

•	Look out for West Bay Opera’s Threepenny Opera (Preview: Inside Bay Area, May 27, 2005)
•	Unconventional Threepenny Opera makes the grade (Inside Bay Area, May 31, 2005)
•	West Bay ends season with feisty, biting Threepenny Opera (The Almanac, June 1, 2005)
•	An Epic Opera (Palo Alto Weekly, June 3, 2005)

Die Dreigroschenoper (Classical Notes essay by Peter Gutmann about the creation and history of The Threepenny Opera)

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