Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill - The Threepenny Opera (1954 New York Cast) (Blitzstein Adaptation)
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Free Music Review: The seminal production of the Three Penny Opera, purchased at Amazon
Hit: 5 Stars
This production of the Three Penny Opera captures the spirit of the original production. The Blitzstein Adaption is responsible for that as is the excellent cast which includes Lotte Lenya, Kurt Weill's wife and performer in the original production. Her interpretation of Pirate Jenny in English is even better, in my opinion, than her original German rendition, something which doesn't usually happen. A must buy for Three Penny Opera fans.Free Music Review: A Good Musical With Some Outstanding Performers
Hit: 5 Stars
This re-adaptation of Kurt Weill's adaptation of The Beggars' Opera is full of heartfelt expression of wry digs at conventionality. This particular cast includes some superb expressive singers, such as Lotte Lenya, Bea Arthur and Cholotte Rae - the last two to become excellent, and famous, commedienes. The brash, rudimentary jazz score adds to the power of it all, making the entire endeavor a cohesive unit.Free Music Review: Worth much more than Threepenny
Hit: 5 Stars
This production showcased the brilliance of Mr. Brecht, Miss Lenya, and Mr. Blitzstein. It also perfectly captured a slice of 1954 that was not well known-something dark, dramatic, humanistic and thoughtful. I remember my parents coming home after seeing this production, totally entranced. They immediately bought this album, and I wore it out over the years-thank goodness for CDs!Free Music Review: classic hard to find performance...marvelous
Hit: 5 Stars
this is a hard to find performance, the original off broadway performance...but better yet would be the Papp Theater performance available from Sony reissued in 2009 of that performance at the Beaumont Center with Raoul Julia, that is even bettere and the orchestration is marvelous, the singing superb and the recording magnificent.Free Music Review: threepenny opera blitzstein
Hit: 5 Stars
I love the "directly off the stage," unhyped qulity of the recording. I just watched the Studio 54 version and I'm grateful they did it. But Lenya & co. got them beat 90 ways. I'm pretty sure this must have been the version that thrilled me when I heard it in a Berkeley CA apt. during 1961 spring break from UCLA.