MARIANNE FAITHFULL - Pirate Jenny

From CD "The seven deadly sins" - 1998
The song is from The Threepenny Opera (German: Die Dreigroschenoper) a musical by German dramatist Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill. It was adapted from an 18th-century English ballad opera, John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, and offers a Marxist critique of the capitalist world. It opened on 31 August 1928 at Berlin's Theater am Schiffbauerdamm.
By 1933, when Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956) and Kurt Weill (1900 - 1950) were forced to leave Germany by the rise of Hitler, the play had been translated into 18 languages and performed more than 10.000 times on European stages.
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[DebZoid]

awesome delivery - brings the score alive

[JudgeJulieLit]

Brilliant ... astounding range as singer, actress* and/or poetic monologuist and/or rhapsode (deeply stirring, movingly emotive narrator).

*Would be great in any of the maturer Shakespearean doyenne roles. And in Cats, Sweeney Todd, more.