The Threepenny Opera Group 3 by Cathryn Rogers https://padlet.com/cathryn_rogers/threepenny3 Original Performance Conditions en-us 2017-01-04 12:19:47 UTC 2025-09-29 19:32:23 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/cathryn_rogers/threepenny3/wish/147703368 The Threepenny Opera was first performed at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in 1928 on a set designed by Caspar Neher.]]> 2017-01-17 23:26:39 UTC https://padlet.com/cathryn_rogers/threepenny3/wish/147703368 Theater am Schiffbauerdamm https://padlet.com/cathryn_rogers/threepenny3/wish/147703815 2017-01-17 23:35:51 UTC https://padlet.com/cathryn_rogers/threepenny3/wish/147703815 Despite an initially poor reception, it became a great success, playing 400 times in the next two years. The performance was a springboard for one of the best known interpreters of Brecht and Weill's work, https://padlet.com/cathryn_rogers/threepenny3/wish/149189689 2017-01-24 22:27:39 UTC https://padlet.com/cathryn_rogers/threepenny3/wish/149189689 https://padlet.com/cathryn_rogers/threepenny3/wish/149190010 2017-01-24 22:29:55 UTC https://padlet.com/cathryn_rogers/threepenny3/wish/149190010 Playbill of the premiere performance at Theater am Schiffbauerdamm Berlin, 31 August 1928. The name of Lotte Lenya, who played Jenny, was omitted by mistake. https://padlet.com/cathryn_rogers/threepenny3/wish/149190143 2017-01-24 22:30:55 UTC https://padlet.com/cathryn_rogers/threepenny3/wish/149190143 The premier performance seemed to indicate that the play would be a disaster. The audience failed to react throughout the entire first half of the show. However, with the performance of the "Cannon Song", applause suddenly burst out and the collaborators had the greatest German success of the 1920s to contend with https://padlet.com/cathryn_rogers/threepenny3/wish/149190449 2017-01-24 22:33:20 UTC https://padlet.com/cathryn_rogers/threepenny3/wish/149190449 https://padlet.com/cathryn_rogers/threepenny3/wish/149240797 By 1933, when Weill and Brecht were forced to leave Germany by the Nazi seizure of power, the play had been translated into 18 languages and performed more than 10,000 times on European stages]]> 2017-01-25 08:38:05 UTC https://padlet.com/cathryn_rogers/threepenny3/wish/149240797 https://padlet.com/cathryn_rogers/threepenny3/wish/149241456 In the United Kingdom, the first fully staged performance was given on 9 February 1956, under Berthold Goldschmidt, although there had been a concert performance in 1933, and a semi-staged performance on 28 July 1938. In between, on 8 February 1935 Edward Clark conducted the first British broadcast of the work.]]> 2017-01-25 08:42:14 UTC https://padlet.com/cathryn_rogers/threepenny3/wish/149241456