"The Threepenny Opera" was performed for the first time in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin, directed by Erich Engel. Mara Fazio talking about that first staging and its huge success.
Chiostro Nina Vinchi
On the occasion of The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, directed by Damiano Michieletto, on stage at the Teatro Strehler from 19 April to 11 June 2016, the Piccolo Teatro di Milano - Teatro d’Europa, pays tribute to the German playwright with a series of discussions, an exhibition, studies and workshops for students, the general public and the city of Milan and created in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Mailand.
Professor of History of Contemporary Theatre at the Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Mara Fazio tells of the creation and the legendary première of The Threepenny Opera in a Berlin of jazz, cabaret and magazines at the end of the ‘fabulous’ 1920s.
On the occasion of The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, directed by Damiano Michieletto, on stage at the Teatro Strehler from 19 April to 11 June 2016, the Piccolo Teatro di Milano - Teatro d’Europa, pays tribute to the German playwright with a series of discussions, an exhibition, studies and workshops for students, the general public and the city of Milan and created in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Mailand.
Professor of History of Contemporary Theatre at the Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Mara Fazio tells of the creation and the legendary première of The Threepenny Opera in a Berlin of jazz, cabaret and magazines at the end of the ‘fabulous’ 1920s.
Credits
Thursday 7 April 2016 at 5 pm
L’opera da tre soldi: la prima a Berlino nel 1928
with Mara Fazio