Threepenny Opera

Tufts Opera presents Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera. This best-loved and most-performed Brecht play, set in Victorian London, is based on John Gay's eighteenth-century Beggar's Opera. Brecht masterfully satirizes the bourgeois society of the Weimar Republic through the story of the rise, fall, and rise again of Macheath, or "Mac the Knife." Weill's introduction of jazz into the theatre started a cultural music revolution in Berlin never seen before or since. Pre-concert lectures with Tufts Musicologist Stephan Pennington will take place on February 17 at 6:45 p.m. and February 20 at 1:45 p.m. Join us for this brutal, scandalous, perverted, humorous, hummable crowd pleaser, and don't miss seeing President and Mrs. Bacow in their final Tufts Opera appearances on February 18 and 20. If you cannot make it to those performances, see Tufts Drama Professor Barbara Wallace Grossman and Massachusetts State Treasurer Steve Grossman on February 19, or Director of Tufts Choruses Jamie Kirsch and Tufts Music Professor Stephan Pennington on Feb. 17.