Lotte Lenya -- Three Penny Opera Original-Cast Recording 1930

'The Three Penny Opera', the 'original-cast album', as performed onstage in Germany, recorded 7 December 1930, and reissued during 1962 by Telefunken on long-play disc TH97012.
The selections presented here all feature Lotte Lenya--
1)Seerauber Jenny;
2)Barbara Song;
3)Zuhalter Ballade, with Willy Trenk-Trebitsch;
4)Moritat & Schluss Choral, with Chorus.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Lotte
• Lenya
• Threepenny
• Opera
• Weill
• Brecht
• Musical
• Show
• Germany
• 1930

[EvedeH]

Anyone who has had a modicum of education, LL is as big a name as Weill

[daroxybabe]

what's wrong with a "modicum of education" are you the "inverted" snob?

[paullubliner]

@BPavsner Yes. That's the lady.

[BPavsner]

Didn't Lenya appear in "From Russia with Love"?

[TheRepairist]

@onebaud True, but Berthold Brecht was a Marxist, who was forced to leave Germany due to Hitler's policy of brutally annihilating the remaining fragments of the Communist and Socialist resistance. Never forget that the first victims of right-wing terror in Germany were the socialist revolutionaries of the 20s. The trope of Germans as passive receivers of Nazi ideology is as misleading as the argument that that SS troops simply followed orders.

[fosterslover]

I love the way old recordings sound.

[anansiD]

Love all of 3 penny opera. Nina Simone does a very convincing version of this song. In fact, an African America version of the opera would be chilling.

[Rollich]

Wo ist die Image?

[RebeccaMigdal]

Threepenny Opera was based on the famous Beggar’s Opera by John Gay, from 1728, which had been revived in London in 1920. Gay was a friend of Jonathan Swift, who encouraged him to write a "Newgate Opera". A sequel called "Polly" was planned, which officials suppressed by denying the theater company a performance license.

The play's depiction of the collusion between law enforcement, high finance, organized crime and exploitative populist leadership is as telling today as it was 300 years ago.

[LENIN990]

oh my god.....amazing!!!

[isherwood]

@onebaud Except this was written during the period of the Weimar Republic, the freedoms of which Hitler hated.  Don't forget the Russians have had their moments of monstrosity, too, as have allied countries (consider English and French colonialism).

[onebaud]

Hitler was a Fascist and not a Marxist. He did hate the Russians and the Jews and tried to destroy both. To hear a menacing song from a German during the times of harassment of the Jews in Germany is chilling. They turned into monsters. MONSTERS! But I still love Lotte Lenya.